Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"To this you must add many other firsts—the first corn raised in Kentucky, the first peach trees and apple trees planted, the first wheat fields, the first grist mill and, perhaps most important of all..."

"But I am much prouder of the way you good people are carrying that idea into actual fact."

"I am very proud to have had something to do with it."

"Again, mere survival calls for a new pioneering on our part."