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I like riding a bicycle built for two--by myself.
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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I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.
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I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.
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If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
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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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Partisanship must end at the waters edge.
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In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.
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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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A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
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Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.
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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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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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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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You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.
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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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Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'.
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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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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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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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The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
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A President cannot always be popular.
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