President Herbert Hoover

Famous quotes containing the words president, herbert and/or hoover:

    “I tell you, you’re ruining that boy. You’re ruining him. Why can’t you do as much for me?”
    —S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, a wisecrack made as Huxley College president to Connie, the college widow (Thelma Todd)

    “Go, birds of spring: let winter have his fee;
    Let a bleak paleness chalk the door,
    So all within be livelier than before.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)