Harry S. Truman Quotes - Page 15

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• It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  Giving, Understanding, Ability

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

  Harry S. Truman

  Party, People, Politics

  1956 Memoirs:Years of Trial and Hope.

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• This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

  Harry S. Truman

  Illumination, Political, Historical

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• We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.

  Harry S. Truman

  Limits, Helping

  Radio Report on the Potsdam Conference, delivered 9 August 1945, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort. Man has learned long ago, that it is impossible to live unto himself. This same basic principle applies today to nations. We were not isolated during the war. We dare not now become isolated in peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Men, Long Ago

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

  Harry S. Truman

  Sweet, Mistake, Feet

  Letter to Bess Wallace, en.wikiquote.org. September 8, 1918.

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• If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

  Harry S. Truman

  Player, Piano, House

  Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

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• We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as Canada and the United States have lived for generations.

  Harry S. Truman

  Presidential, Peaceful, Canada

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational Life, Tasks, World

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• The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Israel, United States

  Statement, 14 May 1948

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• Men make history, not the other way around.

  Harry S. Truman

  Business, Men, History

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• I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Destiny, Work Out

  The Truman Doctrine, delivered 12 March 1947 before a Joint Session of Congress

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• We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of peace after the fighting is over has always been a
  difficult task.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Fighting, Tasks

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.296, New Word City

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• In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Eight, Years

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.177, University of Missouri Press

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• We can never tell what is in store for us.

  Harry S. Truman

  Stores

  Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1998). “Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959”, p.558, University of Missouri Press

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• May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.

  Harry S. Truman

  Heritage, May, Glorious

  Harry S. Truman, Howard B. Furer, United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) (1970). “Harry S. Truman, 1884- : chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• I like riding a bicycle built for two--by myself.

  Harry S. Truman

  Two, Riding, Built

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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

  Two, Evil, Immature

  Harry S. Truman (1999). “Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed”, p.134, University of Missouri Press

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• It's tougher to be a football coach than the President of the United States. You've got four years as a president, and they guard you. A football coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong.

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  Football, Years, President

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• One of the presidents we could have done without.... There are some things I admire about Tyler, but there were also plenty of things that weren't so admirable.... The reason I have a certain amount of grudging respect for John Tyler is that he knew his own mind and stuck to his decisions.

  Harry S. Truman

  Decision, Mind, President

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• I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

  Harry S. Truman

  Thinking, America, House

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Truman Speaks”, New York : Columbia University Press

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• ...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.

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  War, Civil War, Done

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• If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.

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  Hands, People, Want

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• Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Thinking, Presidential

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

  Harry S. Truman

  Animal, Race, People

  Harry S. Truman, William Hillman (1984). “Harry S. Truman in his own words: by William Hillman ; pictures by Alfred Wagg”, Outlet

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