Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I urge all Americans who have a feeling of deep sympathy for the peoples of those unfortunate countries to respond quickly and generously to...

Any transaction for the purpose or which has the effect of evading or avoiding the foregoing prohibitions is prohibited.

The overwhelming greater part of the population of the world abhors conquest and war and bloodshed.

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