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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

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Harry S. Truman
Age: 88 †
Born: 1884
Born: May 8
Died: 1972
Died: December 26
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I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.
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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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If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
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Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.
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The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
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We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.
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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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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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Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
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There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.
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There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do
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I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.
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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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He was a great president in his first term in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with. ...Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.
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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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Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
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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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This generation, raised on Eyewitness News, conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.
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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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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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