Quote by Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)

• Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

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