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Presidency
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Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
-Harry S Truman
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Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
-Harry S Truman
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The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
-Harry S Truman
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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.
-Harry S Truman
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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.
-Harry S Truman
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Solutions
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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.
-Harry S Truman
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Truth
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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
-Harry S Truman
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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S Truman
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Tyranny
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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.
-Harry S Truman
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Vanity
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Conceit is God's gift to little men.
-Harry S Truman
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Voting
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When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
-Harry S Truman
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If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.
-Harry S Truman
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War
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The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
-Harry S Truman
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Books by and about Harry S Truman