Harry Truman — "The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in …"

"When you have to deal with a man who is a son-of-a-bitch, you have to be a son-of-a-bitch yourself."

"When you get to be President, there are all sorts of things you are going to find out, and you are going to find out that a lot of them are not so."

"I wonder how many people have ever thought of a President as a man who has to put up with a lot of slanders and lies."

"It is a terrible thing to have to order the use of a weapon like that. But I had to do it. And I would do it again."

"The United States was not built on fear. It was built on courage, imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."