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I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.
Harry S. Truman
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Harry S. Truman
Age: 88 †
Born: 1884
Born: May 8
Died: 1972
Died: December 26
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There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.
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I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.
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Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.
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I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.
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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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When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.
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My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working.
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Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness.
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