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.
Harry S Truman
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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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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The absence of war is not peace.
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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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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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The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
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You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
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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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If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
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Another phrasing: If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
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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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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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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 only new thing is history we don't know.
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