Harry S. Truman Quotes - Page 9

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• There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.

  Harry S. Truman

  Greatness, Men, Leader

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• If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

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  Military, Political, Elements

  Harry S. Truman (1956). “Memoirs”

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• This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

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  Years, Political, Politics

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• In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.

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  Real, Law, Safety

  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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• At this moment, I have in my heart a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I humbly pray, Almighty God, in the words of King Solomon: 'Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad, for who is able to judge this thy so great people?' I ask only to be a good and faithful servant of my LORD and my people.

  Harry S. Truman

  Kings, Prayer, Heart

  Harry S. Truman, Howard B. Furer, United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) (1970). “Harry S. Truman, 1884- : chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

  Harry S. Truman

  Names, Giving, Campaigns

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

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• The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

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  War, Want, Misery

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

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• It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

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  Honesty, Men, Public Opinion

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.310, University of Missouri Press

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• I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

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  Prisoner, Decent, Wells

  Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2003). “Miracle of Forty-eight”, p.26, SIU Press

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• We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

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  Peace, War, Communication

  "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)" by M.P. Singh, p. 101, January 1, 2005.

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• If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

  Harry S. Truman

  Art, Artist, Ifs

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• There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.

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  Opportunity, Color, Race

  Colin L. Powell, Harry S. Truman, National Legal Center for the Public Interest (1998). “President Truman and the desegregation of the armed forces: A 50th anniversary view of Executive Order 9981”

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• There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.

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  Inspirational, World, Neighbor

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.6, New Word City

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• I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

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  Flying, Earth, Aliens

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• [The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

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  Liars, Kissing, Men

  Letter to his sister, 14 Nov. 1947, in Off the Record: the Private Papers of Harry S. Truman (1980) p. 119

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• Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.

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  Land, Presidential, Mind

  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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• Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Decided

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• Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

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  Education, Book, Reading

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• When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

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  Leadership, Party, Government

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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• Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.

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  Past, Names, Differences

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• I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

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  Soldier, Politics, Politician

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.317, New Word City

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• Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

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  Children, Home, Kids

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

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• A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

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  Character, Men, Fundamentals

  "Mr. Citizen".

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• France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

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  France, Frenchmen

  Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1998). “Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959”, p.261, University of Missouri Press

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• This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Men, Hands

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