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This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to

This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to the security of all free nations.

Harry S. Truman
Real, Independent, Korea
United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

Harry S. Truman
Party, People, Politics
1956 Memoirs:Years of Trial and Hope.

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

Harry S. Truman
Illumination, Political, Historical

We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.

Harry S. Truman
Limits, Helping
Radio Report on the Potsdam Conference, delivered 9 August 1945, White House, Washington, D.C.

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. Man has learned long ago, that it is impossible to live unto himself. This same basic principle applies today to nations. We were not isolated during the war. We dare not now become isolated in peace.

Harry S. Truman
War, Men, Long Ago
United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

Harry S. Truman
Sweet, Mistake, Feet
Letter to Bess Wallace, en.wikiquote.org. September 8, 1918.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Harry S. Truman
Player, Piano, House
Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

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 Canada and the United States have lived for generations.

Harry S. Truman
Presidential, Peaceful, Canada
United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

Harry S. Truman
Inspirational Life, Tasks, World

The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

Harry S. Truman
Government, Israel, United States
Statement, 14 May 1948

Men make history, not the other way around.

Harry S. Truman
Business, Men, History

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

Harry S. Truman
Believe, Destiny, Work Out
The Truman Doctrine, delivered 12 March 1947 before a Joint Session of Congress

We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of peace after the fighting is over has always been a difficult task.

Harry S. Truman
War, Fighting, Tasks
Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.296, New Word City

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Harry S. Truman
Men, Eight, Years
Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.177, University of Missouri Press

We can never tell what is in store for us.

Harry S. Truman
Stores
Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1998). “Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959”, p.558, University of Missouri Press

...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.

Harry S. Truman
War, Civil War, Done

I like riding a bicycle built for two--by myself.

Harry S. Truman
Two, Riding, Built

One of the presidents we could have done without.... There are some things I admire about Tyler, but there were also plenty of things that weren't so admirable.... The reason I have a certain amount of grudging respect for John Tyler is that he knew his own mind and stuck to his decisions.

Harry S. Truman
Decision, Mind, President

May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.

Harry S. Truman
Heritage, May, Glorious
Harry S. Truman, Howard B. Furer, United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) (1970). “Harry S. Truman, 1884- : chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.

Harry S. Truman
Hands, People, Want

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Harry S. Truman
Thinking, America, House
Harry S. Truman (1960). “Truman Speaks”, New York : Columbia University Press

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Harry S. Truman
Animal, Race, People
Harry S. Truman, William Hillman (1984). “Harry S. Truman in his own words: by William Hillman ; pictures by Alfred Wagg”, Outlet

It's tougher to be a football coach than the President of the United States. You've got four years as a president, and they guard you. A football coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong.

Harry S. Truman
Football, Years, President

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 as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.

Harry S. Truman
Country, Thinking, Presidential
United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Harry S. Truman
Two, Evil, Immature
Harry S. Truman (1999). “Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed”, p.134, University of Missouri Press