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.
Herbert HooverThe most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.
Herbert HooverThe ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.
Herbert HooverNo public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
Herbert HooverPresidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.
Herbert HooverI returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'
Herbert Hoover