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Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time

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Harry S. Truman
Age: 88 †
Born: 1884
Born: May 8
Died: 1972
Died: December 26
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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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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.
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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.
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No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President.
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The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.
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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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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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May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.
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Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.
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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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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!
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We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.
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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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My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working.
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.
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A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.
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Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
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Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.
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I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
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