Herbert Hoover actually said...

"It may delay the construction work for a month or two, but it is believed by the Navy that it makes a more perfect ship."

"The setting up of committees of this kind does not imply questions of administration or supervision over industrial life, but that we might develop our experiences to get them into form that have more..."

"It is true that these economic things are not the objective of life itself."

"They involve the immediate fears of men and women for their daily bread, the well-being of their children, the security of their homes."