Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"The Government should be in a position to obtain this essential equipment and property."

"Our Government believes that freedom from cruelty and inhuman treatment is a natural right."

"In brief, we must take the sinking of the Robin Moor as a warning to the United States not to resist the Nazi movement of world conquest."

"We must take it that notice has now been served upon us that no American ship or cargo on any of the seven seas can consider itself immune from acts of piracy."