Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

for the greatest benefit of its citizens both present and future, and for the greatest benefit to the United States.

Message to Congress on the Missouri River Development Plan

09/20/1944

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Any transaction for the purpose or which has the effect of evading or avoiding the foregoing prohibitions is prohibited.

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We, and most of the people in the World, still believe in a civilization of construction and not of destruction.

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