Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"I think it probably goes back to the days of—when did we first get California? 1847, wasn't it?"

"I do hereby proclaim that a state of war unhappily exists between Germany, on the one hand, and Belgium, Luxemburg, and the Netherlands, on the other hand."

"They have often served to keep lines of communication open when disorder, war, or misfortune closed other channels."

"Whereas, under the treaties of the United States and the law of nations it is the duty of the United States, in any war in which the United States is a neutral, not to permit the commission of unneutr..."