Herbert Hoover actually said...

"History will properly appraise your efforts for posterity--the commendation of your own consciences for today."

"I can only repeat what I have so often said to you before that the work which you have done, apart from its evident humanitarian aspects, is a large contribution to the cause of good-will between peop..."

"His private life was characterized by a simplicity of virtue that won for him a place in the affection of his fellow countrymen rarely equaled by any man."

"In public and in private life he set a shining example, and his death will be mourned throughout the land."