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
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.
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.
The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.
The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin
My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere,
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.