Herbert Hoover actually said...

"If we break down this sense of responsibility of individual generosity to individual and mutual self-help in the country in times of national difficulty and if we start appropriations of this characte..."

"The Red Cross officials, whose long devoted service and experience is unchallenged, inform me this morning that, except for the minor incidents of any emergency organization, no one is going hungry an..."

"The American people are doing their job today."

"The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self-help in the community."