Student: Some people suggest that you are getting mellowed and less militant. Is that so? Truman: Not in the slightest degree. They are trying to make an elder statesmen of me, but they will never succeed.
Harry S Truman
Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
life men bravery brave country
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
depression recession
Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.
government dictatorship
A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.
inspirational-attitude
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.
power gambling
Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward..
decisions
I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.
problems solutions
Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.
readers leaders
If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.
world-war-ii
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.
rights race people action
The Russians are like us, they look and act like us. They are fine people. They got along with our soldiers in Berlin very well. As far as I am concerned, they can have whatever they want just so they don't try to impose their system on others.
people system
The people can never understand why the President does not use his powers to make them behave. Well 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.
man people power thetimes time the-public
people
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
war
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
truth
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