Harry Truman: “We must be better armed and better equipped than we are today if we are to be protected from the dangers which still…”

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.

There is hereby established a medal to be known as the National Security Medal with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances.

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.

The Constitution is a living force--it is a growing thing.