Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

We ought to realize that this is a war throughout the world, that we are looking at it as a world war.

Excerpts from the Joint Press Conference with Prime Ministers Churchill and King in Quebec, Canada

08/23/1943

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

I do hereby proclaim Thursday the twenty-third day of November 1944 a day of national thanksgiving

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas

it is fitting that we give thanks with special fervor to our Heavenly Father for the mercies we have received individually and as a nation

I call upon the people of the United States to observe it by bending every effort to hasten the day of final victory