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Power Quotes by Harry S. Truman
- I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
- Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
- Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life…
- At this time, we should renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we…
- Divine Providence has played a great part in our history. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present…
- Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.
- Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been…
- We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
- The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as…
- The Russians are liars - you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world…
- The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
- [The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use…
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