Harry S. Truman Quotes - Page 13

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• I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Men, White Man

  Harry S. Truman (1945). “Addresses and statements of Harry S. Truman: a topical record from January, 1935 to April, 1945 ...”

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• We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Men, Maturity

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1949

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• We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Years, Bulls

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• May the sun never set on American baseball.

  Harry S. Truman

  Baseball, Sun, May

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• As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed. It hasn't. It's you who has changed.

  Harry S. Truman

  Tired, Thinking, Changed

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

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• He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Army, People

  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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• Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.

  Harry S. Truman

  People, Want

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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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• 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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• Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Effort, Doe

  Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2003). “Miracle of Forty-eight”, p.42, SIU Press

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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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• There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

  Harry S. Truman

  Learning, Historical, World

  Quoted in William Hillman, Mr. President (1952)

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• I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

  Harry S. Truman

  Sides, Fence

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

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• Study men, not historians.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Study, Historian

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.187, University of Missouri Press

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• Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

  Harry S. Truman

  Art, Criticism, Constructive Criticism

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• I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.

  Harry S. Truman

  Israel, Presidential, Mind Blowing

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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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• 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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• Canadian-American relations for many years did not develop spontaneously. The example of accord provided by our two countries did not come about merely through the happy circumstance of geography. It is compounded of one part proximity and nine parts good will and common sense.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Two, Years

  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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• 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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• Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of countries from losing their liberty. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world now agree with us, that we need not have war-that we can have peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Peace, War

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1949

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• People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

  Harry S. Truman

  People, Communist

  Harry S. Truman, Robert J. Donovan (1994). “The Words of Harry S. Truman”

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• At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

  Harry S. Truman

  Choices, Way, Alternatives

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

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