Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I consider such proposed legislation a fraud on the soldiers and sailors and marines now training and fighting for us and for our sacred rights.

Message to Congress on Voting by Members of the Armed Forces

01/24/1944

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We can and should, without further delay, extend to the Indian the fundamental rights of political liberty and local self-government.

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