The President's News Conference at Key West
03/17/1949
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We have Government principally to act as, say, an umpire, to see that everybody gets a square deal.
It took us about 80 years to get a good start and to make it operate, and we are still trying to make it operate efficiently.
I think we are gradually approaching a situation where we shall have peace in the world, with the United Nations Organization operating on t...
That is the ideal situation sought by the Constitution of the United States, which in my opinion is the greatest document the Government has...