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Harry S Truman [1884-1972] American

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President, 33rd U.S. President

Harry S. Truman was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States. He served as a United States Senator from Missouri and briefly as Vice President before he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D.

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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.	Courage, Fear, Imagination, Patriotism	101
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.	Amazing	102
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.	Great, Men	103
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.		104
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.	History	105
If you can't convince them, confuse them.	Communication	106
If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.		107
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.	Government	108
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.	History, Time	109
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.	Best	110
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.		111
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.		112
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.	Politics, Time	113
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.	Fear	114
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.	Men	115
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.	Government	116
The White House is the finest prison in the world.		117
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.	Politics	118
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.	Change, Courage, History, Leadership, Men, Society	119
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.		120
A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.		121
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.		122
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.	Great, Time	123
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.		124
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.	Best	125
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.	Freedom, Independence	126
Study men, not historians.	Men	201
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.		202
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.	Dad, Failure	203
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!		204
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.	Experience, War	205
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.		206
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.	Communication, Fear, War	207
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.	Faith, Future	208
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.	History	209
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.	Teacher	210
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.	Learning	211
In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.		212
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.	Art	213
The reward of suffering is experience.	Experience	214
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.		215
It sure is hell to be president.		216
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.		217
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.	Peace	218
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.		219
A President cannot always be popular.	Positive	220
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 moment.		221
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.	Government	222
Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.		223
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.		224
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.	Humor	225
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.		226
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.		301
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.		302
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.		303
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.		304
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.	Politics	305
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.		306
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.		307
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.		308
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.		309
The buck stops here!		310
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.		311
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.		312
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.		313
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.		314
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.		315
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.		316
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.		317
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.		318
The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.		319

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