Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I hereby proclaim that the provisions of my proclamation of September 5, 1939, are suspended, effective immediately.

Proclamation 2544—Suspending Quotas on Imports of Certain Cotton and Cotton Waste

03/30/1942

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

America is not a country which can be confounded by the appeasers, the defeatists, the backstairs manufacturers of panic.

History cannot be rewritten by wishful thinking.

We, the American people, are writing new history today.

Yes, the decisions of our democracy may be slowly arrived at.