Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Nothing will sap the morale of this Nation more quickly or ruinously than penalizing its sweat and skill and thrift by the individually undeserved and uncontrollable poverty of inflation.

Context

Message to Congress on Price Control Legislation

07/29/1941

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