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QUOTES BY Harry S Truman
Selection of Quotes by Harry S Truman . Enjoy these inspirational and motivational quotes.
1.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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2.
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.
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3.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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4.
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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5.
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.
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6.
How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt.
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7.
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 - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
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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.
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9.
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better.
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10.
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.
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11.
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
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12.
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
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13.
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
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14.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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15.
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
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16.
If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
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17.
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.
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18.
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
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19.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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20.
It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
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21.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job it's a depression when you lose yours.
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22.
It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
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23.
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
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24.
Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's 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.
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25.
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.
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26.
Study men, not historians.
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27.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
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28.
The absence of war is not peace.
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29.
The only new thing is history we don't know.
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30.
The White House is the finest prison in the world.
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31.
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.
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32.
Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
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33.
Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
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34.
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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35.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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36.
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.
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37.
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.
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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
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5.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

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6.
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton

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7.
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
Author: John Stuart Mill

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8.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr

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9.
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Author: Rupert Murdoch

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10.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Author: Pablo Picasso

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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
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5.
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished.
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
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8.
Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.
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9.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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10.
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
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