Harry Truman: “I think you young people are faced with the greatest age in history.”

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

I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.

I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.

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.