Harry S. Truman Quotes - Page 8

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• If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

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  Military, Political, Elements

  Harry S. Truman (1956). “Memoirs”

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• No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

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  Family, Mom, Mother

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world.

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  Bombs, World, Atomic Bomb

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

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• We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

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  Country, Religious, Civilization

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• We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

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  Respect, Peace, Men

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.118, New Word City

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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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  Believe, Political, Politics

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

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• 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.

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  War, Airplane, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  Statement on first use of atomic bomb in combat, 6 Aug. 1945

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• This is a Christian nation.

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  Bible, God, Christian

  Harry S. Truman, Pope Pius XII (1953*). “Correspondence between President Truman and Pope Pius XII.”

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• Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

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  Greatness, Be Good, Uninterested

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• Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

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  People, House, Rope

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.

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  Past, Titles, World

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• All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

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  Fall, People, Firsts

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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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  Marine, Army, Long

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line.

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  War, Men, Two

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• Partisanship must end at the waters edge.

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  Water, Ends, Partisanship

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• On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

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  Ideas, Tree, Theory

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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• I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

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  Peace, Patriotic, President

  Harry S. Truman (2003). “Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-stops”, p.106, SIU Press

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• I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

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  Flying, Earth, Aliens

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• When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

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  Leadership, Party, Government

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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• I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

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  Prisoner, Decent, Wells

  Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2003). “Miracle of Forty-eight”, p.26, SIU Press

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• Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan
  you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.

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  Thinking, Rest Of Your Life, Littles

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1980). “The autobiography of Harry S. Truman”

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• At this moment, I have in my heart a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I humbly pray, Almighty God, in the words of King Solomon: 'Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad, for who is able to judge this thy so great people?' I ask only to be a good and faithful servant of my LORD and my people.

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  Kings, Prayer, Heart

  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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• This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.

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  Bible, God, Religious

  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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• There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.

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  Inspirational, World, Neighbor

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.6, New Word City

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• There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.

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  Opportunity, Color, Race

  Colin L. Powell, Harry S. Truman, National Legal Center for the Public Interest (1998). “President Truman and the desegregation of the armed forces: A 50th anniversary view of Executive Order 9981”

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