Harry Truman actually said...

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statues of the United States.

Executive Order 9766—Authorizing the Detail of an Army Officer for Military Duty with the Institute of Inter-American...

07/30/1946

More Harry Truman Quotes

Our obligation, as citizens of the strongest nation in the world, is to lead the peoples of the earth toward the goal of lasting peace.

Peace cannot be built on a foundation of human want.

Unpreparedness on the part of his opponents precipitated his decision to march into Poland in 1939.

Japan struck at Pearl Harbor because she thought the United States was too weak to fight back.