Harry S. Truman Quotes

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With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.

Harry S. Truman
If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.

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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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I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.

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He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with....Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.

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We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort. Man has learned long ago, that it is impossible to live unto himself. This same basic principle applies today to nations. We were not isolated during the war. We dare not now become isolated in peace.

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

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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.

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Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.

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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.

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If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

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I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.

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You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

Harry S. Truman
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.

Harry S. Truman