Harry Truman actually said...

It is good at such a time to pause to take strength and guidance from our country's past.

We dedicate here today not merely a monument to great men of the past, but also to the greatness of free men now and forever.

To attempt to correct injustice by disunion is to apply a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Jackson, Polk, and Johnson are gone. Yet they are forever a part of North Carolina.