Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"It is right or proper that a handful of people... should have the right, without check, at their own sweet will, to dump Government bonds into the market?"

"There has been absolutely no doubt from the legal point of view of the authority under the previous Act to stabilize more than once."

"It is a prudent step to vest in the Government of a Nation the title to and possession of all monetary gold within its boundaries."

"The issuance and control of the medium of exchange which we call 'money' is a high prerogative of government."