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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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.Harry S. Truman
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.
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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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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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Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.
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Radio address to delegates at the opening session of the United Nations conference, San Francisco, April 23, 1945 We must build a new world, a far better world one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
Harry S. Truman
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