pie-in-the-sky

Updated: June 20, 2025

This demonstration of the way free men govern themselves has a more powerful influence on the people of the world on both sides of the Iron Curtain than all the trick slogans and pie-in-the-sky promises of the Communists. But our shortcomings, as well as our progress, are watched from abroad. And there is one shortcoming I want to speak about plainly.

Harry S. Truman - State of the Union Address

This demonstration of the way free men govern themselves has a more powerful influence on the people of the world on both sides of the Iron Curtain than all the trick slogans and pie-in-the-sky promises of the Communists. But our shortcomings, as well as our progress, are watched from abroad. And there is one shortcoming I want to speak about plainly.

United States. Presidents. - State of the Union Address (1790-2001)