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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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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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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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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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Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.
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Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
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Despite his unimpressive appearance and manner, he was a brilliant fellow with a crystal-clear mind.... It was just that, when it came time for him to act like an executive, he was like a great many other people when the time comes to make decisions, they have difficulty doing it.
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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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It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts
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If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.
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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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I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
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Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.
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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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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace.
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The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.
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Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
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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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I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.
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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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