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" The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything. "
Harry S Truman
Anything
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" America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. "
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" The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. "
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" 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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" The reward of suffering is experience. "
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" A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. "
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" All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. "
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" I would rather have peace in the world than be President. "
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" Study men, not historians. "
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" If you can't convince them, confuse them. "
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" I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America! "
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" You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible. "
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Best
" This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come. "
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" The buck stops here! "
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" Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. "
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Leadership
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" In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity. "
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" 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. "
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Free
Flow
" Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. "
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Too
Often
" I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. "
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Just
Never
" Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. "
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" A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. "
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Politician
Dead
" 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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Children
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" If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again. "
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" Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. "
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Know
" 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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Mouth
Wrong
Done
" I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. "
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World
Today
" Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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