Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"The Christmas spirit lives tonight in the bitter cold of the front lines in Europe and in the heat of the jungles and swamps of Burma and the Pacific islands."

"We may hasten the day of their doom if we here at home continue to do our full share."

"All we can say is that columnists are with us, an unnecessary excrescence on our civilization."

"Things are better, and things are going to get better, if we work for it."