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Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!
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I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.
Harry S Truman
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Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S Truman -
Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
Harry S Truman -
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman -
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
Harry S Truman -
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Harry S Truman -
If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.
Harry S Truman
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
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On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.
Harry S Truman -
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S Truman -
We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.
Harry S Truman -
Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.
Harry S Truman -
He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time.
Harry S Truman
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No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.
Harry S Truman -
A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
Harry S Truman -
We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort. Man has learned long ago, that it is impossible to live unto himself. This same basic principle applies today to nations. We were not isolated during the war. We dare not now become isolated in peace.
Harry S Truman -
Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
Harry S Truman -
The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record.
Harry S Truman -
The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.
Harry S Truman
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There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
Harry S Truman -
The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.
Harry S Truman -
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S Truman -
To me party platforms are contracts with the people.
Harry S Truman