Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"We, and most of the people in the World, still believe in a civilization of construction and not of destruction."

"It is our compelling duty to guard and enrich that legacy, to preserve it for a world which must be reborn from the ashes of the present disaster."

"By virtue of the authority vested in me by the provisions of paragraph Eighth, subdivision SECOND, section 2 of the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403, 404), the Civil Service Commission is hereby author..."

"the greatest ultimate long-range gain of these seven years lies in the increased knowledge of what Government is all about"