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Harry S Truman Inspirational Quotes (215)

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It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job it's a depression when you lose yours.
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We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.
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Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.
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Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.
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The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.
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May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.
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Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
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It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.
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When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.
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No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President.
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The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.
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Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
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The atom bomb was no “great decision.” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. The dropping of the bombs stopped the war, save millions of lives.
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
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I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
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I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.
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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.
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The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.
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I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.
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I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
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There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.
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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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