Harry Truman: “He was not Secretary of State at that time.”

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

I have great faith and confidence in our civil servants.

The longer I live, the more I am impressed by the significance of our simple official oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.

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.