Harry S Truman Quotes

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

Harry S Truman

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• Educational System
• Human Freedom
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• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Most
  • Arrested

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Time
  • Impact

• I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Israel
  • General
  • Jerusalem

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Success

• I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Done
  • Success
  • Failure

• I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Ghetto

• I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • You
  • Like
  • Uncle

• I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Great
  • Normal
  • Top

• I don't want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Point
  • Responsible
  • Speculate

• Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Community
  • State
  • Civilisation

• You can't demand generational change on the one hand and expect 40 years of experience on the other.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Experience
  • Hand

• In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

  

  Leo Szilard
  • Life
  • Important
  • Done

• No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Force

• I think Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a while.

  

  Alan Greenspan

• The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Animals
  • Sales
  • Here

• The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.

  

  Marcus du Sautoy
  • Interesting
  • Universe

• I don't think the Whataburger would dunk on the In-N-Out Burger, but I never really liked Whataburger or all the other burgers. McDonald's is decent, I guess, but no, the In-N-Out Burger kills them all.

  

  Dirk Nowitzki

• I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.

  

  Martina McBride
  • People
  • Party
  • Creativity

• I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • People
  • Earth
  • Learn

• Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Democracy
  • Educational System
  • Human Freedom