Harry Truman actually said...

"In 1865 no man alive could have succeeded Abraham Lincoln without being subject to unfavorable comparisons."

"A man more careful to preserve his own peace than to 'preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States' might have drifted into ways that would have ended in the destruction of the U..."

"It is good at such a time to pause to take strength and guidance from our country's past."

"To attempt to correct injustice by disunion is to apply a remedy that is worse than the disease."