Herbert Hoover actually said...

It is folly to think that because we are the richest Nation in the world we can out build all other countries.

Message to the Special Session of the Senate on the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament.

07/06/1930

More Herbert Hoover Quotes

I think they are getting ahead in London--making progress.

Yes, with all sides.

I am sorry I haven't anything that I can tell you about without making trouble for somebody else, and on this occasion I will keep still.

It is the soil in which self respect takes root, and from which may then grow all the moral and spiritual enrichments of life.