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
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..."
Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.
Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.