Harry Truman actually said...

"Don't let anybody tell you that by effort and by hard work you can't reach the top in the profession, if you want to, because people who try to work and want to work are as scarce as the proverbial he..."

"At my personal urging you have agreed to remain in Washington far beyond the time when you had expressed a hope of leaving government service."

"There never was a time in the history of the world when we needed scientists and people of energy as we need them now."

"You discharged all these duties well and faithfully."