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Quotes from Report on the Potsdam Conference — Harry S. Truman

1884–1972 United States

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11 quotes

Desperate men are liable to destroy the structure of their society to find in the wreckage some substitute for hope.

Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)

The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base.

Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)

The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world.

Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)

We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.

Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)

We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan's power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us.

Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)

Any man who sees Europe now must realize that victory in a great war is not something you win once and for all, like victory in a ball game. Victory in a great war is something that must be won and kept won.

Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)

We know now that the basic proposition of the worth and dignity of man is not a sentimental aspiration or a vain hope or a piece of rhetoric. It is the strongest, most creative force now present in this world.

Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)

I realize the tragic significance of the atomic bomb. Its production and its use were not lightly undertaken by this Government.

Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)

All these things we knew before.

Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)

We won the race of discovery against the Germans.
Having found the bomb we have used it.

Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)

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.

Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)

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