Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"We face inflation, unless we act decisively and without delay."

"Legislation should include authority to establish ceilings for prices and rents, to purchase materials and commodities when necessary, to assure price stability, and to deal more extensively with exce..."

"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."

"Labor has far more to gain from price stability than from abnormal wage increases."