Excerpts from the Press Conference
02/15/1943
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We ought to do as much as we feel we ought to do in the immediate future, and then wait until next year and see what we have to do then.
Sound progress toward a budget that is formally balanced is not to be made by heavily slashing expenditures or drastically increasing taxes.
We have not been throwing the taxpayers' money out of the window or into the sea.
Dictatorship, however, involves costs which the American people will never pay: The cost of our spiritual values.