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Harry Truman: It is necessary that we do assume that responsibility for the welfare of the world in generations to come.

On the recordJuly 18, 1949
It is necessary that we do assume that responsibility for the welfare of the world in generations to come.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Chicago at the Shriners Diamond Jubilee Banquet.

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