Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"Further legislative action on this subject at this session of the Congress seems to me, therefore, unnecessary."

"The indebtedness to our Government has no relation whatsoever to reparations payments made or owed to them."

"I firmly believe in the principle that an individual debtor should at all times have access to the creditor."

"There developed the problem of self-contained territories because the Nation's expansion exceeded its development of means of transportation."