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Harry S. Truman
Age: 88 †
Born: 1884
Born: May 8
Died: 1972
Died: December 26
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I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
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If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.
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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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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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It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts
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We worship money instead of honour.
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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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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
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A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
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I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.
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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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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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If you can't dance then you are a loser.
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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
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The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as many other pioneers, with an opportunity to acquire land and establish family farms. To the land-hungry immigrants, the tough prairie sod seemed a golden opportunity and they conquered it by hard work.
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About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.
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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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Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which scientists are expected to change their theories to match changes in the police state's propaganda line.
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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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Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
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