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President Quotes - Page 32

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Harry S. Truman (2003). “Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-stops”, p.106, SIU Press

A President cannot always be popular.

Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.243, New Word City

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

Radio broadcast, 29 Dec. 1940. According to Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (1986), this slogan was picked up for Roosevelt's address after it was used in conversation by John McCloy, who had gotten it from Jean Monnet.

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

"Triumphant U2 steal Carey's Grammys glory" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2006.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.20, The Minerva Group, Inc.