Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"Today we reaffirm our faith in the democratic ideal."

"Our historic friendship finds apt expression in the quotation from a letter which Washington wrote to Rochambeau."

"I pray God no hazard of the future may ever dissipate or destroy that common ideal."

"Though the seas divide us, the people of France and the people of the United States find union today in common devotion to the ideal which the memorial at Montfaucon symbolizes."