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
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.
Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.
It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.