"The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul."
-Herbert Hoover
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"There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.“
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"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."
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"Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next."
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"It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war."
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"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man."
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"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
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