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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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Harry S. Truman
Age: 88 †
Born: 1884
Born: May 8
Died: 1972
Died: December 26
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In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.
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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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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
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If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
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Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'.
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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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Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
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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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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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I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the point
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Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.
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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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If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.
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This is a Christian nation.
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You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
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We must never forget that this coutry was founded by men who came to these shores to worship God as they pleased. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants, all came here for this great purpose. They did not come here to do as they pleased - but to worship God as they pleased, and that is an important distinction.
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In the long view, no nation is any healthier than its children.
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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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Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
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We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
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