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First Quotes by Harry S. Truman
- In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and…
- I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.
- All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall
- 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…
- This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is…
- 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.
- Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
- 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…
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