Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hooverwas the 31st President of the United States. He was a professional mining engineer and was raised as a Quaker. A Republican, Hoover served as head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I, and became internationally known for humanitarian relief efforts in war-time Belgium. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic modernization."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth10 August 1874
CityWest Branch, IA
CountryUnited States of America
Herbert Hoover quotes about
The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated.
In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.