Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"The American people will not relish the idea of any American citizen growing rich and fat in an emergency of blood and slaughter and human suffering."

"I am convinced, however, that under existing conditions the immigration and naturalization activities can best contribute to the national well-being only if they are closely integrated with the activi..."

"I think that people who insist on the limitations in Section 11 may, with some justification, be charged with a desire to return to boondoggling."

"The limitation would have a disastrous effect upon the construction program of the Work Projects Administration."