Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"It is becoming a self-contained country, with divergent resources of all sorts of things."

"Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendment."

"And I am sure you will have every success in this great mission that you are undertaking."

"I, therefore, recommend legislation by the Congress giving the President the authority, to advance the date provided in existing law and to proclaim the legal independence of the Philippines, as a sep..."