Harry Truman: “This time, we must make sure that the tragic events that followed the First World War are not repeated.”

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

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.

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

This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.