Harry S Truman Quotes

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

Harry S Truman

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• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community

• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • May
  • Door
  • Voice

• Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Way
  • Africa
  • Middle East

• Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Food
  • Consequences

• I was raised on NBC television.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Television
  • I Was Raised

• The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Violence
  • Movies
  • Finger

• God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Know
  • Look
  • Limits

• I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Actor

• When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Future
  • Eyes
  • Look

• Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • God
  • Know

• It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially.

  

  Andrew Dost Fun.
  • People
  • Trying

• I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • World
  • Political
  • Food

• To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• The Indian race are waiting and praying.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Waiting

• You've just got to train hard. Conditioning is key, recovery is key. As hard as you work, recovery is just as important. All the soft-tissue work daily, all the things that keep me clean. And you've always got to be aware of what you're eating, what you're putting inside your body. That's key as well.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Work
  • Important
  • Daily

• I just can't imagine anyone in the United States military who would not understand the distinction between a jihadist and a radical Islamist and Muslims. I think that is snobbery from elitists. It goes to the issue, it seems to me, of an orthodoxy, a political correctness that has infiltrated the U.S. Army.

  

  Lou Dobbs
  • Political
  • Military
  • Army

• Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days. And so now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad... The odds are there's going to be a war and it's going to be not for very long.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Military
  • Baghdad
  • Gulf War

• I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Military
  • Constitution
  • Basic element