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I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.
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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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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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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Men make history. History does not make the man.
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The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
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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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Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
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Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.
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It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.
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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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A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
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Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.
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I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
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We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.
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It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
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Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.
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A President cannot always be popular.
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Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
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Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
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No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.
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