Harry Truman actually said...

We want world peace--a just peace for all concerned; and we want to see our borne fires kept burning so we can meet the obligations created by this tremendous expenditure for war.

Context

Remarks at a Meeting With the American Society of Newspaper Editors

04/16/1947

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