Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"This is protective armor for any Government, and we ought to have it."

"Such legislation places the right, title and ownership to our gold reserves in the Government itself."

"It is right or proper that a handful of people... should have the right, without check, at their own sweet will, to dump Government bonds into the market?"

"There has been absolutely no doubt from the legal point of view of the authority under the previous Act to stabilize more than once."