Herbert Hoover actually said...

"No matter how devised, an increase in taxes in the end falls upon the workers and farmers, or alternatively deprives industry of that much ability to give employment and defeats the very purpose of th..."

"Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the Public Treasury."

"There is not a scintilla of truth in the suggestion that we are engaged in any negotiations to set up any commitment as to conference on peace or war or upon the freedom of the seas."

"For the Government to finance by bond issues deprives industry and agriculture of just that much capital for its own use and for employment."