Harry Truman: “That's a matter for the Secretary of the Navy to handle.”

We have discovered that the Constitution does not prevent us from correcting social injustice, or advancing the general welfare.

The ultimate responsibility is mine in any event.

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.

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.