Harry Truman: “I recommend that the Congress enact at the present session legislation directed toward five objectives.”

This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.

I enjoin upon all officers of the United States charged with the execution of the laws thereof the utmost diligence in preventing violations of section 215 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and this proclamation, including 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.

The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.