Harry Truman: “The House and Senate must legislate and put the matter up to me, and then I will comment on it.”

We have learned that the mark of a well-managed land lies in the care a Nation gives to its rivers.

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

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.

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