Herbert Hoover

31st U.S. President

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Biography

Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A Republican, as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s he introduced Progressive Era themes of efficiency in the business community and provided government support for standardization, efficiency and international trade.

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Quotes by Herbert Hoover

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.