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If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.
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One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.
Harry S Truman
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The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.
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A President cannot always be popular.
Harry S Truman -
He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed.
Harry S Truman -
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
Harry S Truman -
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry S Truman -
The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.
Harry S Truman
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All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.
Harry S Truman -
I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.
Harry S Truman -
I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.
Harry S Truman -
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S Truman -
Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.
Harry S Truman -
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.
Harry S Truman
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When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S Truman -
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.
Harry S Truman -
When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.
Harry S Truman -
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S Truman -
Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.
Harry S Truman -
The absence of war is not peace.
Harry S Truman
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I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.
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Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!
Harry S Truman -
The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.
Harry S Truman -
I like riding a bicycle built for two--by myself.
Harry S Truman