We Are All Worms. But I Believe

The Very First Thing The President [truman] Did Was To Show Me The New Presidential Seal, Which He Had Just Redesigned. He Explained, 'the Seal Has To Go Everywhere The President Goes. It Must Be Displayed Upon The Lectern When He Speaks. The Eagle Used To Face The Arrows But I Have Re-designed It So That It Now Faces The Olive Branches ... What Do You Think?' I Said, 'mr. President, With The Greatest Respect, I Would Prefer The American Eagle's Neck To Be On A Swivel So That It Could Face The Olive Branches Or The Arrows, As The Occasion Might Demand.'

There Is More Blood Than Paint Upon These Hands. All Those Thousands Of Men Killed. We Thought It Would Be A Little Job, And So It Might Have Been If It Had Begun In The Right Way.

When I Am Abroad, I Always Make It A Rule Never To Criticize Or Attack The Government Of My Own Country. I Make Up For Lost Time When I Come Home.

Courage Is Rightly Considered The Foremost Of The Virtues, For Upon It All Others Depend.

I Thought Of A Remark . . . That The United States Is Like A 'gigantic Boiler. Once The Fire Is Lighted Under It There Is No Limit To The Power It Can Generate.' Being Saturated And Satiated With Emotion And Sensation, I Went To Bed And Slept The Sleep Of The Saved And Thankful.