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War Quotes by Harry S. Truman
- The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.
- 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.
- Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of countries from losing…
- 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…
- Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who…
- 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…
- ...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.
- But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or…
- 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…
- If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.
- Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been…
- 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.
- We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort.…
- If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.
- The absence of war is not peace.
- When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then…
- Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
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