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
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
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 supreme purpose of history is a better world.
If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
We have gold because we cannot trust governments
We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.