Herbert Hoover actually said...

"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."

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

"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 ..."

"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."