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Harry S. Truman

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01Undated

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

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02Undated

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.

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03Undated

The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.

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04Undated

'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

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05Undated

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

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06Undated

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

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07Undated

Once a decision was made I did not worry about it afterward.

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08Undated

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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09Undated

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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10Undated

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

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11Undated

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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12Undated

The "C" students run the world.

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13Undated

I studied the lives of great men and famous women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

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14Undated

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in this country have.

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15Undated

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

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16Undated

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

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17Undated

Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell Harricum!

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18Undated

The buck stops here.

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19Undated

I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.

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20Undated

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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21Undated

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

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22Undated

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

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23Undated

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

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24Undated

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.

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