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
Herbert Hoover quotes about
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.
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.
True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.
Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.
All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.
The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists - they are too damn greedy.
The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.
Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.
Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.
I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.