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
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.
We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.
No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.
The supreme purpose of history is a better world.