Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

A considerable number of States do not presently contemplate taking such action.

Message to Congress on a Bill to Facilitate Voting by Members of the Armed Forces

03/30/1944

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

You cannot get a sufficiently trained force of all kinds at the front, in the Navy yards and the arsenals, transportation, supply system, an...

There was no such thing as 'must' legislation.

I consider it essential to adequate national defense.

I am damned if I do, and I am damned if I do not.