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Discovery
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We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
-Harry S Truman
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Economics
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Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
-Harry S Truman
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Effort
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Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
-Harry S Truman
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Excellence
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.
-Harry S Truman
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Government
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Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
-Harry S Truman
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Greatness & Great Things
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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
-Harry S Truman
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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.
-Harry S Truman
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History
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Study men, not historians.
-Harry S Truman
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Horses, Horse Racing
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It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts
-Harry S Truman, speech, October 17, 1948
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Humor
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Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
-Harry S Truman
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Leadership
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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.
-Harry S Truman
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Management
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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.
-Harry S Truman
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Masses
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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.
-Harry S Truman
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Media
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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, Mr. Citizen, 1960
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Money
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The buck stops here.
-Harry S Truman
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
-Harry S Truman
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Peace
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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
-Harry S Truman
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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.
-Harry S Truman
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Pessimism
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
-Harry S Truman
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Politics
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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
-Harry S Truman
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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.
-Harry S Truman
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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
-Harry S Truman
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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
-Harry S Truman
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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
-Harry S Truman
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How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
-Harry S Truman
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Books by and about Harry S Truman