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
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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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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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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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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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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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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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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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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The White House is the finest prison in the world.
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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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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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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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How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt
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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
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