Harry Truman actually said...

It is necessary that the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful free nation in the world--and I say that not in a bragging way, but because it happens to be the truth--the people of the United States have assumed the responsibility which no other nation in the history of the world has assumed.

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Remarks at the Armed Forces Day Dinner

05/17/1951

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