Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"The American people have gone through great national debates in the recent critical years."

"I like to think that the history of the Philippine Islands... provides in a very real sense a pattern for the future of other small Nations and peoples of the world."

"The United States promised to help build a new Nation in the Pacific, a Nation whose ideals, like our own, were liberty and equality and the democratic way of life."

"You have the Nation's gratitude and the Nation's prayers for success as you and your men fight your way back to Bataan."