Herbert Hoover actually said...

"The publication of accurate, unbiased, worthwhile news is a public service; for our people rely for information of affairs upon the newspapers."

"The matter is not perhaps one of large importance in itself, were it not for the fact of the great number of other similar proposals by the aggregate of which the principles of sound coinage are being..."

"I am happy to extend cordial greetings to the Society of the Genesee on the occasion of its thirty-first annual dinner and to send my best wishes to your guest of honor Mr. Frank E. Gannett."

"These coins do not serve for circulating medium which is the real function of coins."