“Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.”

— Herbert Hoover

On Growing Up: Letters to American Boys & Girls (1962); also quoted in Herbert Hoover On Growing Up: Letters from and to American Children (1990) edited by Timothy Walch

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