John Maynard Keynes

Keynes, whose pessimism toward the pace settlement had matched Hoover's, called him "the only man who emerged from the ordeal of Paris with an enhanced reputation"... Keynes's perspective was shared widely in Europe. When Woodrow Wilson won the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in Paris, a leading Austrian newspaper wrote that it would more appropriately have been awarded to Hoover, "who has earned the gratitude of mankind as no one else has done."

• Herbert Hoover
  • p. 225 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017)