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About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.
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 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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We must never forget that this coutry was founded by men who came to these shores to worship God as they pleased. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants, all came here for this great purpose. They did not come here to do as they pleased - but to worship God as they pleased, and that is an important distinction.
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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 had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.
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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.
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Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
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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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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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It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.
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I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.
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Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.
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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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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
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Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
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I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.
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Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.
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I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.
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A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
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Canadian-American relations for many years did not develop spontaneously. The example of accord provided by our two countries did not come about merely through the happy circumstance of geography. It is compounded of one part proximity and nine parts good will and common sense.
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