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1884–1972 United States
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States (1945–53), an American politician of the Democratic Party.
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Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.
Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.
Address to Congress (1945)
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
No government is perfect. One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.
Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.
No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.
I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city.
Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.
It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth there's hardly any difference.
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.
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!
And as I say to you, whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court, he ceases to be your friend, you can be sure of that.
Truman Speaks (1960)
A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's honest and decent and not a nigger or a Chinaman.
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.
Tell him to go to hell; I'm for Jimmy Byrnes.
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