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Divine Providence has played a great part in our history. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose. It is not given to us to know fully what that purpose is, but I think we may be sure of one thing, and that is that our country is intended to do all it can, in cooperating with other nations to help created peace and preserve peace in the world. It is given to defend the spiritual values-the moral code-against the vast forces of evil that seek to destroy them.
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Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.
Harry S Truman
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In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.
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In the long view, no nation is any healthier than its children.
Harry S Truman -
If you can't dance then you are a loser.
Harry S Truman -
We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of peace after the fighting is over has always been a difficult task.
Harry S Truman -
Our goal must be not peace in our time, but peace for all time.
Harry S Truman -
Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.
Harry S Truman
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The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.
Harry S Truman -
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
Harry S Truman -
The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
Harry S Truman -
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S Truman -
Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. The time has arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and that protection.
Harry S Truman -
Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
Harry S Truman
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Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable...
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In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.
Harry S Truman -
If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.
Harry S Truman -
A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.
Harry S Truman -
It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts...
Harry S Truman -
An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.
Harry S Truman
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Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time...
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Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
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A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
Harry S Truman -
May the sun never set on American baseball.
Harry S Truman