Harry Truman

The atomic bomb is the most terrible and devastating weapon that man has ever contrived.

This year their slogan is, 'Two families in every garage.'

A free society requires the supremacy of the civil rather than the military authority.

For the first time in history you are going to have a chance to decide whether you want a government run by the people or whether you want a government run by special interest.

What kind of hope is there when we brag about passing a mark set 22 years ago, when the needs, the job, and the problems were very much smaller?

I am more than happy to have this opportunity to talk to the people of Wisconsin.

You, the people, are the Government; and when you exercise your right to vote, you run the Government, and when you don't exercise your vote--as you didn't exercise it in 1946--you get such things as that 80th Congress, and you get just…

I think you are going to go to the polls and vote for the American way of life.

Well, let me tell you something--I'm not licked yet by any means.

There is nothing more un-American than a city slum.

Wisconsin needs to regain her position in leadership in the cause of liberalism in the United States.

The fact is that after 16 years of Democratic Government, this whole country is prosperous, and I want to keep it that way.

If you want housing, you had better vote the Democratic ticket.

What happened to the Republican Party in Wisconsin has been repeated on a national level.

Wisconsin is a State which gave us fighting Bob LaFollette; a State which has led all others in sound, progressive legislation.

They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.

They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.

Real unity is behind basic principles and concrete programs.

I pay tribute to the liberal spirit of the people of Minnesota.

The Democratic Party believes in the people.

Through those long dark months of war never once was a blast furnace kept a single minute, because of lack of ore.

They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.

Unity in a democracy cannot be produced by mealymouthed political speeches.

Farmers tell me they want them continued.

I don't think I have had a more cordial reception anywhere in the whole United States.