Harry S Truman Quotes
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Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.
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The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.
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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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When the Liberals said they were going to create a million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
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All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.
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A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.
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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's nothing better than cake but more cake.
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We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
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Too many pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.
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Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.
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Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble...
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It's tougher to be a football coach than the President of the United States. You've got four years as a president, and they guard you. A football coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong.
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This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.
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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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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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It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.
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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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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.
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If you can't stand the heat, then move to Minnesota. They have snow in May.
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I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
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We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.
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Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.
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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.