Harry Truman: “The old imperialism--exploitation for foreign profit--has no place in our plans.”

The longer I live, the more I am impressed by the significance of our simple official oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.

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.

They should be strong enough to see that unified multiple-purpose development is planned for, and works operated harmoniously in each basin-wide comprehensive system.

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