Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship."

"The Director of the Office of Government Reports is authorized to continue in employment those persons employed in the Office of Government Reports on June 30, 1941."

"I am glad that you have come today, because as I suggested at lunch to some of the Trustees, this is the last chance you have got to see this Library free of charge."

"It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future."