Herbert Hoover actually said...

"The very spirit that makes the Red Cross possible assures it a probity and devotion in service which no government can ever attain."

"You have, under most difficult handicaps, again demonstrated that it can meet and relieve human suffering in any national disaster."

"The whole recreational movement is one not only vital to public health but it is vital to public welfare."

"A voluntary deed by a man impressed with the sense of responsibility and brotherhood of man is infinitely more precious to our national ideals and national spirit than a thousandfold poured from the T..."