Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"I have too much historical background and too much knowledge of existing dictatorships to make me desire any form of dictatorship for a democracy like the United States of America."

"It is ordered that paragraph 4, Subdivision III, Schedule B of the Civil Service Rules be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:"

"A great and unique figure has been lost to our national life in the death of Colonel House."

"Few Americans have possessed in such degree the confidence of statesmen at home and abroad as did this modest and self-effacing man."