We cannot afford to let prices rise unchecked.
I think I know the American farmers.
I will use my powers with a full sense of my responsibility to the Constitution and to my country.
We cannot hold the actual cost of food and clothing down to approximately the present level beyond October first.
Remember, the folks back home are counting on us.
The cost of living goes up as fast as it is threatening to do in the immediate future.
When the cost of living spirals upward, everybody becomes poorer.
The Congress must realize that unless the existing control over farm prices is strengthened, we must abandon our efforts to stabilize wages ...
It is not necessary for me to enumerate again the disastrous results of a runaway cost of living.
We must stabilize the remuneration received by individuals for their work.
The Nation must have more money to run the war.
This total war, with our fighting fronts all over the world, makes the use of the executive power far more essential than in any previous wa...
The prevention of a spiraling domestic economy is a vital part of the winning of the war itself.
The American people can also be sure that I shall not hesitate to use every power vested in me to accomplish the defeat of our enemies.
It would be unfair to labor to stabilize wages and do nothing about the cost of food; it would be equally unfair to the farmer.
We are determined that no group shall suffer a shrinkage of its normal quota of basic necessities because some richer group can buy all the ...
If the vicious spiral of inflation ever gets under way, the whole economic system will stagger.
They have given their sons to the military services.
