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Harry S. Truman quotes - page 8
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
Harry S. Truman
Now days battles are just sort of a "You shoot up my town and I'll shoot up yours."
Harry S. Truman
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.
Harry S. Truman
Desperate men are liable to destroy the structure of their society to find in the wreckage some substitute for hope.
Harry S. Truman
It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.
Harry S. Truman
We must be prepared to pay the price for peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war.
Harry S. Truman
All these things we knew before.
Harry S. Truman
It is an awful responsibility which has come to us.
Harry S. Truman
We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan's power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us.
Harry S. Truman
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.
Harry S. Truman
No man can get rich in politics unless he's a crook.
Harry S. Truman
Reported in Truman Speaks (1960), p. 59.
Harry S. Truman
Your old friend Congressman Hartley of the Taft Hartley team ... has written a book ... The title of this book is Our New National Labor Policy, the Taft-Hartley Act and the Next Steps.
Harry S. Truman
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S. Truman
On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.
Harry S. Truman
Give me a one-handed economist All my economists say, 'on one hand ... on the other.'
Harry S. Truman
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
Harry S. Truman
Secrecy and a free, democratic government dont mix.
Harry S. Truman
If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. Neither of them thinks anything of their pledged word.
Harry S. Truman
Your old friend Congressman Hartley of the Taft Hartley team ... has written a book ... The title of this book is Our New National Labor Policy, the Taft-Hartley Act and the Next Steps. Get that: "The Next Steps" ... They're going even further! ... The Republicans favor a minimum wage - the smaller the minimum the better.
Harry S. Truman
I think the greatest asset that the Kremlin has is Senator McCarthy.
Harry S. Truman
In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice. Here in America, we have labored long and hard to achieve a social order worthy of our great heritage. In our time, tremendous progress has been made toward a really democratic way of life. Let me assure the forward-looking people of America that there will be no relaxation in our efforts to improve the lot of the common people.
Harry S. Truman
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