Harry Truman

The real issue in this campaign is the Democratic Party and the people against the special interests and the protected profits for the privileged few.

We beat this Republican outfit in 1932. beat them in 1936. We beat them in 1940. And we beat them 4 years ago.

We must do more than merely avert war.

I never will stop working for peace.

It's time for them to change.

I am going to tell you just what these forces are.

We must not imagine, just because we love freedom, that freedom is safe--that our freedom is safe.

We cannot always count on being led--in time of economic trouble--by a man, with genuine faith in the people.

I would much rather have peace in this world--a permanent peace in this world--than to be President of the United States.

They took you to the cleaners in 1929.

Eternal vigilance is still the price of liberty.

We need at least a 75-cent minimum wage.

During this past summer, up to August 31, officers and directors of the country's largest corporations contributed immense sums to the Republican election campaign funds.

It is a terrible thing when a family has to dip into its savings to pay the grocery bill--savings which it had set aside for old age, to educate the children, or for the down payment on a home.

I have been criticized during this campaign for talking plainly to people about the issues, but that's the only way I know how to do business.

In this campaign you don't have to rely on promises. This time, you have the record.

I think a Presidential campaign is one of the most important elements in our democratic process.

Corporation profits after taxes have increased 70 cents on the dollar since price control was killed.

I am urging you with everything I have to vote the Democratic ticket straight November 2d, and then we can go on to build the kind of people's America that our great President Franklin D. Roosevelt had in mind when he gave us the New Deal.

The Republicans said they are for social security, but when they had the power and the Congress, they took social security away from a million people that had it.

The Republican Party is notoriously favorable toward big business monopolies.

The truth is that the profits of the fellow who skims the cream off the people are what is causing high prices.

But if you people here in Johnstown and the millions like you, all over the United States, come out and vote on election day, we will get a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress.

Now, just do one thing in your own interest.

My opponent is conducting a very peculiar campaign.