I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.

When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.

To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.