Harry Truman: “That was the intention of Mr. Byrnes' statement. I think it is.”

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.

The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.

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

I have great faith and confidence in our civil servants.