Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid public resolution, do by this proclamation designate ..."

"I like to think that it was the will of God that we remain one people."

"We must not deny that the effects of the so-called 'era of reconstruction made themselves felt in many evil ways for half a century."

"We can but wish that the war had never been."