Harry S. Truman

"Profiles at the Miller Center of Public Affairs"

"I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!"

"I am not worried about the Communist Party taking over the Government of the United States, but I am against a person, whose loyalty is not to the Government of the United States, holding a Government…"

"I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them ... that's all the powers of the President amount to."

"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or natio…"

"My favorite animal is the mule. He has more sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating — and when to stop working."

"My forebears were Confederates... but my very stomach turned over when I had learned that Negro soldiers, just back from overseas, were being dumped out of Army trucks in Mississippi and beaten."

"I sincerely wish that every member of Congress could visit the displaced person's camp in Germany and Austria and see just what is happening to 500,000 human beings through no fault of their own."