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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
Harry S. Truman
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Harry S. Truman
Age: 88 †
Born: 1884
Born: May 8
Died: 1972
Died: December 26
33Rd U.S. President
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Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
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I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion alone of the moment that counts.
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I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.
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We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.
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But all of us-at home, at war, wherever we may be-are within the reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will.
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Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
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Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.
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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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All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall
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As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed. It hasn't. It's you who has changed.
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I don't give a damn about The Missouri Waltz but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as The Star-Spangled Banner so far as music is concerned.
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The White House is the finest prison in the world.
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