Harry Truman: “I didn't know he made it, and I am sorry he did.”

We venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they still have meaning for us.

As far as I am concerned.

The ultimate responsibility is mine in any event.

It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time.