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Harry S. Truman Quotes on Atomic Bomb

I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle. And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb. But when history says that my term of office saw the begining of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it.

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The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world.

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When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

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The atom bomb was no “great decision.” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. The dropping of the bombs stopped the war, save millions of lives.

Harry S. Truman Quotes on Politics

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.

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The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

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Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

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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.

Harry S. Truman Quotes on Korean War

In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak. […] Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores.

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[Repeating a question from the press:] He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren’t getting the tar licked out of us [by the North Korean army]. It has never happened to us. It won’t happen this time.

Harry S. Truman Quotes about Leadership

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.

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

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How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he had taken a poll in the land of Israel? What would have happened to the Reformation if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn’t polls or public opinion of the moment that counts. It’s right and wrong and leadership.

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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 when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S. Truman Quotes on Republicans

I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who’s hitting you? It’s about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.

Harry S. Truman Quotes our Debt

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

Harry S. Truman Quotes about Communism

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

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This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to the security of all free nations.

Harry S. Truman Quotes on Veterans

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

Harry S. Truman Quotes about Reading

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

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Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

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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.

Harry S. Truman Quotes America Was not

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S. Truman Quotes on Democrats

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don’t need help. That’s all there is to it.

Harry S. Truman Quotes about War

He’ll sit there are he’ll say “Do this! Do that!” and nothing will happen. Poor Ike – it won’t be a bit like the army.

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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.

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

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There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

Harry S. Truman Quotes Memorial Day

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

Harry S. Truman Quotes Credit

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Funny Harry S. Truman Quotes

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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The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

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

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