Harry S. Truman

President

1884-05-08

Books by Harry S. Truman

Year of Decisions
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Years of Trial and Hope
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Memoirs. --
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Quotes by Harry S. Truman

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?
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But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
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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.
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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.
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The buck stops here!
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The reward of suffering is experience.
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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.
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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.
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Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
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It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
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You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
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