Harry S Truman Quotes

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

Harry S Truman

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• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • History
  • Popular

• When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • Trying
  • Belief
  • I Can

• The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Movie
  • Journey
  • First

• I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Belief

• I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Belief

• I found a belief system that worked for me, and I said, you know what, 'I actually do want to give being with men another chance.'

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Men
  • Want
  • Know

• What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Government
  • Balance
  • Belief

• Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Knowledge
  • Belief
  • Use

• And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Believe
  • Way

• In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes living in isolation from the rest of the world and prone to fanatical irrational indestructible beliefs — not least the notion that you can flush a 950-page book down one of Al Gore's eco-crazed federally mandated low-flush toilets, a claim no editorial bigfoot thought to test for himself in Newsweek's executive washroom.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • Book
  • Rest

• Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Life
  • Long
  • Why

• I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Belief
  • Duty
  • Benefits

• We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Policy
  • Deals
  • Documents

• [U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Women
  • She
  • Belief

• I think when I started doing stand-up, that's when I really tried to question everything in my belief system which is - I think a pretty important part of being a comedian is really questioning things.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Belief

• There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Community
  • Opinion
  • Belief

• The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Belief

• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Why
  • Democracy

• I wish they would take me as I am.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Wish

• For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Years

• The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Ability
  • Miracle
  • Realist

• It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Belief
  • Documents
  • Glass cases