Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Prudent management demands not merely works which will guard against these calamities, but carefully formulated plans to prevent their occurrence.

Message to Congress on National Planning and Development of Natural Resources

06/02/1937

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

It is all off the record; all strictly in the family and nothing else.

I have always encouraged, and am entirely in favor of, absolute freedom for all news writers.

it is ordered that Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, be, and it is hereby, abolished as a customs port of entry

You have to go a long ways off so as to see things in their true perspective.