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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

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“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. ”
― Harry S. Truman

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“The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.”
― Harry Truman

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#4

“The reward of suffering is experience.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#5

“Believe and you're halfway there.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#6

“We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#7

“Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: brave, bravery, country, life, men

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#8

“On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy.
That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#9

“Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#10

“How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who’s hitting you.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#11

“No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#12

“A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: inspirational-attitude

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“Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: dictatorship, government, individual-worth

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#14

“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.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#15

“If you can read this thank a teacher.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#16

“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”
― Harry S. Truman

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#17

“A President cannot always be popular.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#18

“Harry S. Truman said, “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
― Robert I. Sutton, Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst

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#19

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#20

“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: depression, economy, money, recession, work

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#21

“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: education, history, past

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#22

“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: humor, inspirational, leaders, politics, presidents

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#23

“If you can't convince them, confuse them.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#24

“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: cause-of-trouble, government, greed, national-troubles, problems, problems-in-the-world, selfishness, trouble, troubles, wisdom

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#25

“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.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: childhood, life

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#26

“The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: freedom, moral-law, political-philosophy, politics, separation-of-church-and-state

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“We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: health, politics

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#28

“The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: politics, republicans

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#29

“My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#30

“Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: deciding, decisions

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