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Quotes by Herbert Hoover

US mining engineer & politician (1874 - 1964)

9 quotes were found

Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.