We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.
Herbert HooverEconomic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Herbert HooverI am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the localand state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and sufferingI will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.
Herbert Hoover