• I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.

    Herbert Hoover: I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.
    Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.36, Stanford University Press