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- I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.
- 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…
- I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that 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…
- When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.
- If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.
- I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and…
- People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.
- There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives…
- If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
- A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that…
- 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…
- Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
- We're going to be buried out here. I like the idea because I may just want to get up some day and stroll into my…
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