Harry Truman: “There will be no special session of the 'do-nothing' 80th Congress.”

The people of the United States have a very great asset in this force.

We built the Bureau of Reclamation's great new Hungry Horse Dam in Montana not as an isolated structure, but as a part of the Columbia Basin system.

We have discovered that the Constitution does not prevent us from correcting social injustice, or advancing the general welfare.

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.