Harry S. Truman Quotes - Page 3

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• Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

  Harry S. Truman

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

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• There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Confidence, Courage

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Freedom and equality, addresses”

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• The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Political, Minimum Wage

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• Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

  Harry S. Truman

  Religious, Stupidity, Presidential

  Harry S. Truman (2015). “Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman”, p.146, New Word City

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• I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.

  Harry S. Truman

  Rights, People, Guarantees

  Harry S. Truman (1956). “Memoirs”

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• If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.

  Harry S. Truman

  Goal, Doomed, Ifs

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• A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members

  Harry S. Truman

  Treats, Members, Judged

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• I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Witty, Political, Six Months

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• It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

  Harry S. Truman

  Destiny, Hands, Law

  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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• A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Army, Men

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.145, New Word City

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• The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

  Harry S. Truman

  Know It All, Knows

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• Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

  Harry S. Truman

  Religious, Rights, Liberty

  Harry S. Truman (1956). “The Truman administration, its principles and practice”

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• If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

  Harry S. Truman

  Wisdom, Adversity, Gossip

  Mr Citizen (1960) ch. 15 (see also Harry Vaughan 22.6)

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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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Suicide, Men, Law

  Address at National Archives, Washington, D.C., 15 Dec. 1952

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• It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Funny, Depression

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• Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom in the exercise of his abilities. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

  Harry S. Truman

  Responsibility, Exercise, Men

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1949

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• Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Shine On, Shoes

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• When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.

  Harry S. Truman

  Army, Winning, Presidential

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• Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which scientists are expected to change their theories to match changes in the police state's propaganda line.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Science, Police

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• The atom bomb was no “great decision.” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. The dropping of the bombs stopped the war, save millions of lives.

  Harry S. Truman

  Powerful, War, Fire

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• Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

  Harry S. Truman

  Stories, Exaggerating

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• You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.

  Harry S. Truman

  Judgement, Facts, Newspapers

  "Mr. Citizen".

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• The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

  Harry S. Truman

  Party, Knives, Sticks

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• An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

  Harry S. Truman

  Opportunity, Problem, Pessimist

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• There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Men, Liberty

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.345, New Word City

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