Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It should protect both farmers and consumers against extreme ups and downs in prices of farm products.

Only in that way can we hope to achieve and maintain an enduring prosperity, free from the disastrous extremes of booms and depressions.

With their help, and the added counsel of practical farmers throughout the Nation, I am confident that your committees and your fellow membe...

That purpose is to gain for all of our people the greatest attainable measure of economic well-being, the largest degree of economic securit...