To maintain forces less than that strength is to destroy national safety; to maintain greater forces is not only economic injury to our people but a threat against our neighbors and would be righteous cause for ill will amongst them.
Herbert Hoover: “To maintain forces less than that strength is to destroy national safety; to maintain greater forces is not only…”
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