Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It is our duty to see that the burden is equitably distributed according to ability to pay so that a few do not gain from the sacrifices of the many.

Message to Congress on a Steeply Graduated Excess Profits Tax.

06/30/1940

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

It seems better to merge the movement of ships... and give to the one person several subdivisions under him.

Things of that kind slow down industry so much less than illness slows down industry.

Recreation under present conditions can be undertaken solely for the purpose of building up body and mind and with the chief thought that th...

The American people are not now, and have not been, complacent.