
Japan struck at Pearl Harbor because she thought the United States was too weak to fight back.
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Japan struck at Pearl Harbor because she thought the United States was too weak to fight back.

Peace cannot be built on a foundation of human want.

We haven't decided on the Turkish situation as yet.

He has been the Republican Governor of Nebraska for 6 years.

The Kansas City vote fraud investigation should be carried through to its logical conclusion.

It will have some effect of that sort, but I don't think it is a dangerous effect.

I urge that the Congress give early consideration to the subject of universal training.

The Commission has made an exhaustive investigation and has submitted an excellent report.

On October 23, 1945, I recommended to the Congress the enactment of a system of universal training.

It is not intended by this proclamation to give a national-forest status to any publicly-owned lands which have not hitherto had such a status, or to change the status of any publicly-owned lands which have hitherto had national-forest…

I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1103 (16 U.S.C. 471), and section 1 of the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 11, 36 (16…

I hope that the Congress will, by appropriate legislation, approve this extension agreement in accordance with the provisions of Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution of the United States.