Truest of allies, direct in your speech and in your writings and ever a pattern of simple courage . . . (sociorum firmissime, qui missis ambagibus et loqueris et commentaries scribis veraeque constantiae specimen semper dedisti).
Harry Truman was inducted into the fellowship of Oxford university with a Doctor of Civil Laws with these words (spoken in Latin). May we all take what was spoken of him as a challenge to what we should become.
