Harry Truman actually said...

"We should all ponder the following questions: What would it avail the farmer, in the long run, if farm prices should go substantially higher only to be followed by a disaster such as occurred after th..."

"We cannot allow the strength of this Nation to be wasted and our people's confidence in our free institutions to be shaken by an economic catastrophe."

"The Congress has been convened to consider two problems of major concern to the citizens of the United States and to the peoples of the world."

"When the American people have faced decisions of such magnitude in the past, they have taken the right course."