Harry S. Truman Quotes

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• Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Fear, Voice

  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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• An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

  Harry S. Truman

  Trust, Money, Presidential

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• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Music, Wisdom

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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• Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

  Harry S. Truman

  Friendship, Best Friend, God

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• I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.

  Harry S. Truman

  Uncles, Hate, Men

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• Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

  Harry S. Truman

  Political, Term Limits, Disease

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• When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

  Harry S. Truman

  Fear, War, Marijuana

  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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• I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

  Harry S. Truman

  Freedom, Agency, Historical

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• Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.

  Harry S. Truman

  Perfect, Action, Beats

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• The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

  Harry S. Truman

  History, Presidential, World

  "Plain Speaking : An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman" by Merle Miller, (p. 26), 1974.

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• Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

  Harry S. Truman

  Atheism, Hot, Turds

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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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Courage, Determination, Jobs

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

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• Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

  Harry S. Truman

  Greed, Selfishness, Causes

  Truman, Harry S. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1946, Volume 2”, p.512, Best Books on

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• The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as Displaced Persons as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.

  Harry S. Truman

  Dog, Selfish, Past

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• There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Risk, Action

  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 fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Rights, Government

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• Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Party, People, Needs

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• A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Attitude, Optimistic

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• For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Policy Making, World

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• I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.

  Harry S. Truman

  America, People, Hitting

  Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2003). “Miracle of Forty-eight”, p.72, SIU Press

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• Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

  Harry S. Truman

  Taken, Thinking, Courses

  Harry S. Truman (1956). “Memoirs: Years of trail and hope”

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• If you can't convince them, confuse them.

  Harry S. Truman

  Witty, Business, Silly

  Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2003). “Miracle of Forty-eight”, p.139, SIU Press

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• Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time

  Harry S. Truman

  Real, People, Choices

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• He "wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed."

  Harry S. Truman

  Presidential, Ass, Used

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