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" At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way. "

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" We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation. "

Herbert Hoover

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" At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon. "

" Children are our most valuable natural resource. "

" It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. "

" Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom. "

" Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession. "

" The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. "

" Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. "

" I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. "

" Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe. "

Herbert Hoover

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" When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation. "

" Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. "

" Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. "

" Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty. "

" The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity. "

" Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution. "

" Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. "

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

" Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful. "

" One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class. "

" The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger. "

" Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. "

" I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours. "

" The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage. "

" Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family. "

" Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. "

" When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. "

" With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. "

" True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men. "

" It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. "