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• The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.

  Harry S. Truman

  Party, Republican, Republican Party

  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 President cannot always be popular.

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  President, Popularity

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.243, New Word City

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• A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

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  Integrity, Needs, Code Of Ethics

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• This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.

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  Law, Justice, Important

  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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• Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

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  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with - and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Real, Government

  Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

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• Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

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  Religious, Church, Rooms

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

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• All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

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  Choices, Decision, Forget

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• I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?

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  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman".

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• Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan
  you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.

  Harry S. Truman

  Thinking, Rest Of Your Life, Littles

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1980). “The autobiography of Harry S. Truman”

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• In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

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  Life, Motivational, Reading

  Harry S. Truman (1999). “Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed”, p.138, University of Missouri Press

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• Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

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  Regret, Waste, Wasting Time

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• The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world.

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  Bombs, World, Atomic Bomb

  Radio Report on the Potsdam Conference, delivered 9 August 1945, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

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  Grandchildren, Past, Years

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• Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

  Harry S. Truman

  Greatness, Be Good, Uninterested

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• We can all pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of Gods will. We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands.

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  Hands, Soul, Praying

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• To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the enemy, I extend the heartfelt thanks of a grateful Nation. As one of the Nation's finest, you undertook the most severe task one can be called upon to perform. Because you demonstrated the fortitude, resourcefulness and calm judgment necessary to carry out that task, we now look to you for leadership and example to further exalting our country in peace.

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  Country, Grateful, Heart

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• The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.

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  Honor, Life Is, Masters

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• Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.

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  War, Order, Law

  Radio Report on the Potsdam Conference, delivered 9 August 1945, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

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  Numbers, Mind, Patch Up

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

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• This is a Christian nation.

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  Bible, God, Christian

  Harry S. Truman, Pope Pius XII (1953*). “Correspondence between President Truman and Pope Pius XII.”

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• If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

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  Fishing, World, Hysterical

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

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• It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

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  Leadership, Peace, Motivation

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1962). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

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  Religious, Position Of Power, Giving

  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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• The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

  Harry S. Truman

  Marine, Army, Long

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

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