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A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
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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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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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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I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
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About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.
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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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I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.
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Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!
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You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view we were happy to see that the British Government has on its part accepted the principle of nationalization.
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I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
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Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.
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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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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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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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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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Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.
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