Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

This Government is determined to use all of its powers to prevent any avoidable rise in the cost of living.

Letters to Leon Henderson on Ceiling Prices for Certain Foods and Rent Control

10/02/1942

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

You cannot get a sufficiently trained force of all kinds at the front, in the Navy yards and the arsenals, transportation, supply system, an...

I am damned if I do, and I am damned if I do not.

I consider it essential to adequate national defense.

There was no such thing as 'must' legislation.