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I have always believed that right will prevail in the end. It has been a policy with me to get the facts and then make a decision. That decision should be made in the public interest as conditions then prevailing require. If the facts available justify a decision at the time it will also be correct in future time.
It is not possible for a public man to be constantly worrying about what history and future generations will say about decisions he has to make. He must live in the present, do what he thinks is right at the time and history will take care of itself.
As an administrators in local government, as a United States senator and as vice president and president of the Untied States, decisions made be me were made on the facts available. I found that some of them did not work out as anticipated, because of factors unknown at the time the decisions was made. I believed in publicly admitting the error and amending the decision. No man can make a perfect score.
Harry S. Truman
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