Harry Truman: “We have that under consideration”

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.

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

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Article 140 I64 Stat. 107, 145); and as Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, I hereby delegate to the Secretary of Defense the…

We venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they still have meaning for us.