Harry S. Truman Quotes - Page 9

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• All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.

  Harry S. Truman

  Order, Fields, Neighbor

  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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• In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strong, Fall, Communist Leaders

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• Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies-hunger, misery, and despair.

  Harry S. Truman

  Enemy, Democracy, Despair

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1949

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• This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

  Harry S. Truman

  Years, Political, Politics

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• It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

  Harry S. Truman

  Honesty, Men, Public Opinion

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.310, University of Missouri Press

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• They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Fighting, Winning

  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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• If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

  Harry S. Truman

  Art, Artist, Ifs

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• The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Want, Misery

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

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• A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

  Harry S. Truman

  Character, Men, Fundamentals

  "Mr. Citizen".

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• It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.

  Harry S. Truman

  Presidential, Degrees, Sides

  Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2003). “Miracle of Forty-eight”, p.65, SIU Press

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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

  Education, Book, Reading

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• Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Strength, Peace

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

  Harry S. Truman

  People, Giving, Trouble

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• On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Hands, Cities

  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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• The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Sports, Heart

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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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Motivational, Reading

  Harry S. Truman (1999). “Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed”, p.138, University of Missouri Press

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• We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, War, Communication

  "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)" by M.P. Singh, p. 101, January 1, 2005.

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• Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

  Harry S. Truman

  Children, Home, Kids

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

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• In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.

  Harry S. Truman

  Real, Law, Safety

  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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• In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

  Harry S. Truman

  Names, Giving, Campaigns

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

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• France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

  Harry S. Truman

  France, Frenchmen

  Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1998). “Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959”, p.261, University of Missouri Press

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• The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, America, Historical

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.149, New Word City

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• Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

  Harry S. Truman

  Athlete, Men, President

  Harry S. Truman (1987). “Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of trial and hope”, Da Capo Pr

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• The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.

  Harry S. Truman

  Important, Way, Endure

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• I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."

  Harry S. Truman

  Jobs, Tombstone, Lying

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