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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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To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
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Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
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With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.
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Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.
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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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Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.
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Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
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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.
Harry S. Truman
I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.
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Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.
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Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.
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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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Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
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We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
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A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.
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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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It's tougher to be a football coach than the President of the United States. You've got four years as a president, and they guard you. A football coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong.
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The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.
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This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to the security of all free nations.
Harry S. Truman
People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.
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