It is necessary that we do assume that responsibility for the welfare of the world in generations to come.
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
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Remarks in Chicago at the Shriners Diamond Jubilee Banquet.
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