Harry S. Truman
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“It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.” -Harry S. Truman
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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.” -Harry S. Truman
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“Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.” -Harry S. Truman
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“It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.” -Harry S. Truman
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“I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.” -Harry S. Truman
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“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” -Harry S. Truman
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“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.” -Harry S. Truman
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“I would rather have peace in the world than be President.” -Harry S. Truman
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“The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.” -Harry S. Truman
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“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” -Harry S. Truman
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“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” -Harry S. Truman
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“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” -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.” -Harry S. Truman
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“A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.” -Harry S. Truman
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“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.” -Harry S. Truman
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“I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.” -Harry S. Truman
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“The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.” -Harry S. Truman
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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.” -Harry S. Truman
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“I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.” -Harry S. Truman
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“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.” -Harry S. Truman
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“The reward of suffering is experience.” -Harry S. Truman
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“Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.” -Harry S. Truman
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“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.” -Harry S. Truman
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“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” -Harry S. Truman
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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.” -Harry S. Truman
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“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” -Harry S. Truman
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“You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.” -Harry S. Truman
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“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.” -Harry S. Truman
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“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S. Truman
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