Harry Truman: “As I said before, it is special privilege against the people.”

The people of the United States have a very great asset in this force.

Without multiple-purpose river basin development, I believe that few of these accomplishments would have been possible.

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.

No more than one National Security Medal shall be awarded to any one person, but for subsequent services justifying an award, a suitable device may be awarded to be worn with the Medal.