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
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.
The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin
We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.
Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.
I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good.
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.