Harry Truman actually said...

That freedom is given to permit the flexibility and latitude needed in present day activities.

Letter to Jess Larson on the Signing of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949

06/29/1949

More Harry Truman Quotes

The kind of peace we seek cannot be won at a single stroke or by a single nation.

And I know very well that is exactly what we are going to do.

It didn't come. It didn't come.

I have been President of the United States since the 12th of April 1945, about 4 years and 3 months--a little over--and that's the 'derndest...