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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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One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.
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It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.
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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed. The fantastically crowded nine months of 1945 taught me that a President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt I could let up for a single moment.
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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
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The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
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The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.
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It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.
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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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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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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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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
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We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.
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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
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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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If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.
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A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
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Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.
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There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
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We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.
Harry S. Truman
Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.
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