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It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

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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In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.
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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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I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?
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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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It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
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The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.
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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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One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.
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I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.
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...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.
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The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.
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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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There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
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I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
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Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
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Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble
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Canadian-American relations for many years did not develop spontaneously. The example of accord provided by our two countries did not come about merely through the happy circumstance of geography. It is compounded of one part proximity and nine parts good will and common sense.
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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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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
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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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