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Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.
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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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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There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.
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There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do
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If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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This generation, raised on Eyewitness News, conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.
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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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I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
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Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble
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Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.
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He was a great president in his first term in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with. ...Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.
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May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.
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Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
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Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
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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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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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Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
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Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
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In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.
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Men make history. History does not make the man.
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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!
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