Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"The period of eligibility of those candidates for appointment as Foreign Service officers whose names were on the eligible list on March 20, 1934, is hereby extended one year and a half from the date ..."

"It is, of course, clear to me that it is reasonable that some provision for appeal should be a part of Government policy."

"Our early forbears brought from the Netherlands a quality of endurance against great odds—a quality of quiet determination to conquer obstacles of nature and obstacles of man."

"Our task of reconstruction does not require the creation of new and strange values."