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The absence of war is not peace.
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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If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.
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The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.
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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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Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.
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I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.
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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
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There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.
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When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
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May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.
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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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