Harry S. Truman Quotes

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

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I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.'

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The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' ... It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

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The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

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Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

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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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Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs whencourageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. v 33rd President of the U.S. 1945-1953 v 1884-1972.

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You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

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I have found thatthe best way to give advice to your childrenis to find out whatthey want, andthen advise them to doit.

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot

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How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt

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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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All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.

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I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.

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The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.

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Being too good is apt to be uninterresting.

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Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

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Always do right it will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

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The buck stops here.

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A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a single moment.

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