Harry Truman said...

It is my fervent hope as I leave the Office of the Presidency that recent reckless attacks which can destroy that great ...

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...

I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.

We venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they ...