The President's News Conference
01/12/1949
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The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.
You can't run the Government without it.
Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.
The weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.