Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Please let me urge upon the Congress the desirability of placing all but policy-forming positions under the merit system.

Letters on the Extension of the Merit System in the Civil Service

06/01/1937

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

The suffering, humiliation, and mental torture that you have endured since the barbarous, unprovoked, and treacherous attack upon the Philip...

We have the will and the power to teach her the cost of treachery and deceit.

Nowhere has the desire to avenge their comrades been stronger than among the forces of the Southwest Pacific.

There never was a doubt that the people of the Philippines were worthy of their independence.