Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"to commit ourselves definitively at this time to a formalized course of action might well be premature and might therefore even do more harm than good."

"the kind of dollar which a generation hence will have the same purchasing and debt-paying power as the dollar value we hope to attain in the near future."

"we are watching all developments in the monetary sphere with a view to making any timely contribution we can."

"Those provisions... amount to an unconstitutional invasion of the province of the executive."