Harry S Truman Quotes
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The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.
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We worship money instead of honour.
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A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.
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Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.
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This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.
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There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.
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Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.
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The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
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Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
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A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
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I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.
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I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.
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The White House is the finest prison in the world.
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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
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The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as Displaced Persons as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.
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Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
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Have fired 500 rounds at the Germans, at my command, been shelled, didn't run away thank the Lord and never lost a man. Probably shouldn't have told you but you'll not worry any more if you know I'm in it than if you think I am. Have had the most strenuous work of my life, am very tired but otherwise absolutely in good condition physically mentally and morally.
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I couldn't see well enough to play baseball when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.
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The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
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Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
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Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
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You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
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If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.
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I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.