Harry Truman actually said...

We have Government principally to act as, say, an umpire, to see that everybody gets a square deal.

Remarks at a Meeting With the National Conference of Business Paper Editors

09/12/1946

More Harry Truman Quotes

This is most interesting.

The more you think about it, the funnier it is.

That's the story on the cost of living.

I know what the burdens of the Presidency are--and I think I know when a man ought to lay them down.