Tag: Harry S Truman
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Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.
Harry S Truman
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A President cannot always be popular.
Harry S Truman
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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.
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.
Harry S Truman
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Study men, not historians.
Harry S Truman
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S Truman
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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.
Harry S Truman
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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S Truman
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I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
Harry S Truman
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There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S Truman