We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.
Herbert HooverBut I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs.
Herbert HooverAmerican life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?
Herbert HooverThe use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
Herbert Hoover