Herbert Hoover actually said...

"Our great American experiment has demonstrated that the people will of their own initiative take care of progress if the government can remove abuse and help put the signs on the road, stimulation to ..."

"Possibly if I had either the time or the inclination to worry over the evils which lurk around the White House it might decrease my faith in human goodness, but, fortunately, the insistent need for de..."

"It is from too much emphasis on 'government of the people' that we get the fundamental confusion that government, since it can correct much abuse, can also create righteousness."

"In the meantime, a vast clamor of half-truths and untruths and injured facts will always fill the air and intoxicate people's emotions."