Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

I most earnestly hope that the Congress will support this particular part of the bill to the full.

You cannot stand aside and see America's interest deteriorate throughout the world just by inaction.

I believe that under the circumstances existing at the time that war began, the war was necessary.

I signed this with really the prayerful hope that we may be able, with that amount, to sustain the essential interests of the United States ...