Harry Truman: “The Senate committee has a right to work on anything that the Senate itself authorizes them to do.”

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.

Members of the armed forces of the United States who are awarded the decoration established by this order are authorized to wear the medal and the ribbon symbolic of the award, as may be authorized by uniform regulations approved by the…

This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.

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