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Harry S Truman Inspirational Quotes (215)

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When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
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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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Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.
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If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.
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The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.
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The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.
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He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time.
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The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.
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The only new thing is history we don't know.
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When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
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It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.
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Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
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There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
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Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
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Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.
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...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.
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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 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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I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.
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Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.
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Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.
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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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