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 supreme purpose of history is a better world.
Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.
The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.
Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.
Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.
What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ...And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.
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.