Harry S. Truman Quotes

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  Republicans admire the U.S. government so much that they would like to buy it.

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• I don’t much care for your law, but, by golly, this bourbon is good.

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• I told him to fire away. He did and it is dynamite.

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• Can’t somebody bring me a one-handed economist?

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• Being criticized…he never did get it through his head that that’s what politics is all about.

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• The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him he is not.

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• Too many…pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

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• It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

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• Party platforms are contracts with the people.

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• In 1945 we did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations. We set down on paper the only principles that will enable civilized human life to continue to survive on this globe.

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• Why, this fellow doesn’t know any more about politics than a pig on Sunday.

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• If you can’t stand the heat you better get out of the kitchen.

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• The only thing you have to worry about is bad luck. I never had bad luck.

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• 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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• Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his Government a Fair Deal.

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• The Republicans believe in the minimum wage — the more the minimum, the better.

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• Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

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• We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives – but in what we do for others.

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•  Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

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• I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.

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Harry S. Truman (104)

Birth:	8th May, 1884
Death:	26th December, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

About

Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, USA. He was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States from 1945–1953. He served as a United States Senator from Missouri from 1935–45 and briefly as Vice President before he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was studied at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law.

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