QUOTES by Harry S. Truman
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"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
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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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"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
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"The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members."
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"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first."
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"When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril."
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"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."
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"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."
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"You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now."
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"You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible."
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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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"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."
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"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
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"The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
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"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences."
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"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."
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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."
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"Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place."
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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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"A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years."
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"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on."
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"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."
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"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency."
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"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all."
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"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."
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"The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness."
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"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."
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"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in."
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"The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's."
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"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."
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"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend."
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"A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment."
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"I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here."
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"Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here."
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