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Cold War Quotes by Harry S. Truman
- We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only…
- The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.
- In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.
- I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.
- I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or…
- If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.
- This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your…
- I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly…
- There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
- We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
- The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us.
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