Herbert Hoover actually said...

"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."

"But if these blots were other than exceptions, this nation would not have swept to a mightier and mightier destiny every year since the Independence."

"When we look back over history we see the periods of either moral, social, economic, or political stagnation while the truth was en route and some variety of demagoguery occupied the scene."