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Harry S Truman Inspirational Quotes (215)

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There's nothing better than cake but more cake.
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You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view we were happy to see that the British Government has on its part accepted the principle of nationalization.
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I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
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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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Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
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Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.
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Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
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I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
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I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
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The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us.
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Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
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Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
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It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts
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Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.
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We worship money instead of honour.
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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.
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This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to the security of all free nations.
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This is a Christian nation.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.
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