Harry Truman actually said...

No lesser objective is commensurate with the productive capacity and resources of the country or with the dignity which a true democracy accords the individual citizen.

Context

Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 3 of 1947.

05/26/1947

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