Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I feel... that it is my duty... to report to you the fact that the National Convention will during its deliberations in Chicago tender to yo...

My principal objective, as you know, has been the protection of the rights and privileges and fortunes of what has been so well called the a...

If the Convention should carry this out, and nominate me for the Presidency, I shall accept.

I would accept and serve, but I would not run, in the usual partisan, political sense.