Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"This is not inconsistent in any sense with our status of peace."

"They are essential to the protection of the Panama Canal, Central America, the northern portion of South America, the Antilles, Canada, Mexico, and our own eastern and Gulf seaboards."

"No citizen has lost a single one of these human liberties that we prize so highly in this democracy."

"If we are to survive, we cannot be soft in a world in which there are dangers that threaten Americans—dangers far more deadly than were those that the frontiersmen had to face."