Harry Truman: “I will let you know as soon as I do.”

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.

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.

I have great faith and confidence in our civil servants.