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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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As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed. It hasn't. It's you who has changed.
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I don't give a damn about The Missouri Waltz but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as The Star-Spangled Banner so far as music is concerned.
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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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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
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I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.
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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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One of the presidents we could have done without.... There are some things I admire about Tyler, but there were also plenty of things that weren't so admirable.... The reason I have a certain amount of grudging respect for John Tyler is that he knew his own mind and stuck to his decisions.
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It sure is hell to be president.
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People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.
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The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
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If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.
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You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view we were happy to see that the British Government has on its part accepted the principle of nationalization.
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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.
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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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Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.
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Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
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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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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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