Harry Truman: “I am always glad to be in Philadelphia.”

I am happy to join with you in the recognition of the 70th Anniversary of the establishment of the Federal Civil Service merit system.

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

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

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.