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States Quotes by Harry S. Truman
- The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.
- Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which…
- The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own…
- They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go…
- This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The…
- I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of…
- I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.
- Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other…
- We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as…
- Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and…
- 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…
- 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…
- A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.
- 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.
- The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
- Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we…
- 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 I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
- My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
- The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally…
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- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
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- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
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