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When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry S Truman
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The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
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To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
Harry S Truman -
If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-discipline.
Harry S Truman -
When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.
Harry S Truman -
Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
Harry S Truman -
The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.
Harry S Truman
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You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view we were happy to see that the British Government has on its part accepted the principle of nationalization.
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Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.
Harry S Truman -
I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."
Harry S Truman -
To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.
Harry S Truman -
It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.
Harry S Truman -
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S Truman
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Some day we'll awake, have a reformation of the heart, teach our kids honor and kill a few sex psychologists, put boys in high schools with men teachers not sissies, close all the girls' finishing schools, shoot all the effeciency experts and become a nation of God's people once more.
Harry S Truman -
For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.
Harry S Truman -
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S Truman -
I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.
Harry S Truman -
Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
Harry S Truman -
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
Harry S Truman
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I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle. And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb. But when history says that my term of office saw the begining of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it.
Harry S Truman -
I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.
Harry S Truman -
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
Harry S Truman -
When we refused to be forced out of Berlin, we demonstrated to the people of Europe that with their cooperation we would act, and act resolutely, when their freedom was threatened.
Harry S Truman