Harry S. Truman Quotes - Page 6

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• We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

  Harry S. Truman

  Matter, Deny, Please

  "Flags of convenience", www.economist.com. September 11, 2003.

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• Beware of the guy praying loudest in the amen corner.

  Harry S. Truman

  Guy, Praying, Amen

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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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Gun, Hype, Honor

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• No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, President, Doe

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• I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.

  Harry S. Truman

  Learning, Knowledge, Experts

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• I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

  Harry S. Truman

  Morning, Work, Long

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• Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to...] figure out what [the right thing] is.

  Harry S. Truman

  Easy, Figures, Difficult

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• Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Population, Civil Rights

  1945 Speech to Congress, 6 Sep.

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• Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Injustice, Economic

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.337, New Word City

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• I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

  Harry S. Truman

  People, Trying, President

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• My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working.

  Harry S. Truman

  Horse, Animal, Pet

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

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• Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

  Harry S. Truman

  Sunday, Pigs, Politics

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• When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Humor, Government

  Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959, in Truman Speaks (1960) p. 51

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• I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job ... I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below.

  Harry S. Truman

  Jobs, Eye, Men

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• Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leader, Reader

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• A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

  Harry S. Truman

  Humorous, Office, Political

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• The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.

  Harry S. Truman

  Powerful, Thinking, Play

  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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• The White House is the finest prison in the world.

  Harry S. Truman

  White, House, World

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• The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congressand that includes the great majority. I sometimes express it by saying the President is the only lobbyist that one hundred and fifty million Americans have. The other twenty million are able to employ people to represent themand thats all right, its the exercise of the right of petitionbut someone has to look after the interests of the one hundred and fifty million that are left.

  Harry S. Truman

  Jobs, Exercise, People

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• The only new thing is history we don't know.

  Harry S. Truman

  Knows, New Things

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• The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Voice, Presidential

  1964 InThisWeek, 5 Apr.

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• A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

  Harry S. Truman

  Patriotic, Men, Years

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations".

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• Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

  Harry S. Truman

  Past, Roots, President

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.11, New Word City

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• On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

  Harry S. Truman

  Ideas, Tree, Theory

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

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