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Harry S. Truman
Age: 88 †
Born: 1884
Born: May 8
Died: 1972
Died: December 26
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Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
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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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You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
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I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the point
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace.
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When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.
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With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.
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It's tougher to be a football coach than the President of the United States. You've got four years as a president, and they guard you. A football coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong.
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We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort. Man has learned long ago, that it is impossible to live unto himself. This same basic principle applies today to nations. We were not isolated during the war. We dare not now become isolated in peace.
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Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.
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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 think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.
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Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.
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I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.
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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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The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.
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Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
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The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.
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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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