Harry Truman: “Sure, I will be glad to.”

We venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they still have meaning for us.

This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.

The Constitution is a living force--it is a growing thing.

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.