Herbert Hoover

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

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.

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

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.

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.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

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

- Herbert Hoover