Herbert Hoover actually said...

"We accomplish that without building a single ship."

"On the merits or demerits of these alternatives as to this very small part of the fleet of about 1,125,000 tons, our naval advisers are sharply divided."

"The program of the treaty does represent a decrease in destroyer and submarine strength."

"The United States scraps three battleships, the British five, and Japan one, and postpones the enormous expenditure for renewals under the Washington Treaty until after 1936."