Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"That is merely organizing beforehand, so as to know what to do."

"You cannot get a sufficiently trained force of all kinds at the front, in the Navy yards and the arsenals, transportation, supply system, and munitions output, you cannot get it by just passing an Act..."

"There was no such thing as 'must' legislation."

"I am damned if I do, and I am damned if I do not."