Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

—Herbert Hoover

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Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. Hoover's term as president was dominated by the Great Depression. His ineffectual response to the growing economic calamity made him widely unpopular, and he lost reelection to...

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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

—Herbert Hoover

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.

—Herbert Hoover

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

—Herbert Hoover

All men are equal before fish.

—Herbert Hoover

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

—Herbert Hoover

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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.

—Georges Clemenceau

You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

—Florence Nightingale

An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

—Edmund Burke

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

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