Harry Truman: “Accordingly, it is my desire that all postponable public works be deferred until private demands for goods and services…”

I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.

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.

We venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they still have meaning for us.

I am glad that the Bill of Rights is at last to be exhibited side by side with the Constitution.