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
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.
Engineering is a great profession.
Prosperity is just around the corner.
Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.
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.
Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.
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.