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Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
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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Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
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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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Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
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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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It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.
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There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
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We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God
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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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I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.
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Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.
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When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.
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