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A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics. (Harry S. Truman)
We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are. View quote
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How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast." View quote
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A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States. View quote
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do. View quote
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This is a Christian nation. View quote
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The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of Americas greatest contributions to the peace of the world. View quote
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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. View quote
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Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that. View quote
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Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit. View quote
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I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.' (Harry S. Truman)
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers. View quote
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All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance. View quote
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Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice. View quote
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We can never tell what is in store for us. View quote
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Whenever the press quits abusing me I know I'm in the wrong pew. I don't mind it because when they throw bricks at me-I'm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw 'em back at 'em. View quote
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We won the race of discovery against the Germans. Having found the bomb we have used it. View quote
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If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth. View quote
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The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. View quote
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We know now that the basic proposition of the worth and dignity of man is not a sentimental aspiration or a vain hope or a piece of rhetoric. It is the strongest, most creative force now present in this world. View quote
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I realize the tragic significance of the atomic bomb. Its production and its use were not lightly undertaken by this Government. (Harry S. Truman)
Any man who sees Europe now must realize that victory in a great war is not something you win once and for all, like victory in a ball game. Victory in a great war is something that must be won and kept won. View quote
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They are trying to make an elder statesmen of me, but they will never succeed. View quote
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We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city. View quote
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Our victory in Europe was more than a victory of arms. It was a victory of one way of life over another. It was a victory of an ideal founded on the rights of the common man, on the dignity of the human being, on the conception of the State as the servant - and not the master - of its people. View quote
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