In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S Truman
man
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me. I've got the most terribly responsible job a man ever had.
I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
ability work peace
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
nations faith
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
wonder wonders rest
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
worth
It is an awful responsibility which has come to us. We thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies; and we pray that He may guide us to use it in His ways and for His purposes.
purpose enemies
No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.
nations
Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
places
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.
honor
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
plans
The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
weapon righteousness
I sincerely wish that every member of Congress could visit the displaced person's camp in Germany and Austria and see just what is happening to 500,000 human beings through no fault of their own.
faults
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