Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"the definite policy of the United States from now on is one opposed to armed intervention."

"It is ordered that a division which shall be known as the Division of Territories and Island Possessions be, and it is hereby, established in the Department of the Interior."

"This action was of course directly contrary to the intent of the provision in the Independence Act cited above."

"I have found that the prohibition of the sale of arms and munitions of war in the United States to those countries now engaged in armed conflict in the Chaco may contribute to the reestablishment of p..."