Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I cannot sit back and fail to advocate other measures such as limited consumers' subsidies which I am convinced can help to prevent the cost of living from getting completely out of hand.

Context

Letter on the Resignation of Chester C. Davis

06/27/1943

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