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
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.
Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.
Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.
I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation which is going forward in Palestine under Jewish auspices, and to add my expression to the sentiment among our people in favor of the realization of the age-old aspirations of the Jewish people for the restoration of their national homeland.