Tag: Harry S Truman
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S Truman
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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.
Harry S Truman
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The atom bomb was no ‘great decision.’ It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S Truman
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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.
Harry S Truman
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman
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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.
Harry S Truman
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S Truman
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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S Truman
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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.
Harry S Truman
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S Truman