Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Our problem is to see to it that there is no idle critical machine in the United States.

Letter Requesting Around-the-Clock Defense Production

04/29/1941

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

The time for active defense is now.

This was piracy- piracy legally and morally.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

It is time for all Americans, Americans of all the Americas to stop being deluded by the romantic notion that the Americas can go on living ...