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“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”

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Author:Harry S. Truman

“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”

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Author:Harry S. Truman

“A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.”

Inspirational Attitude

Author:Harry S. Truman

“We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.”

Politics Health

Author:Harry S. Truman

“Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. And the time has now arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and to help them get that protection.”

Politics Health

Author:Harry S. Truman

“But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?”

War Political Science International Relations Nuclear War Nuclear Bomb

Author:Harry S. Truman

“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 end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.”

Politics Freedom Political Philosophy Separation Of Church And State Moral Law

Author:Harry S. Truman

“Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...”

Decisions Deciding

Author:Harry S. Truman

“Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.”

Men Life Country Bravery Brave

Author:Harry S. Truman

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”

Author:Harry S. Truman

“We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others”

Religion Politics Virtue Christian Behavior

Author:Harry S. Truman

“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 that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.”

Government Dictatorship Individual Worth

Author:Harry S. Truman

“[we are] going to continue to fight communism. Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism. We are not going to transform our fine FBI into a Gestapo secret police. That is what some people would like to do. We are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. We are not going to turn the United States into a right-wing totalitarian country in order to deal with a left-wing totalitarian threat.”

Cold War Mccarthyism

Author:Harry S. Truman

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

Inspirational Achievement Recognition Accomplishment Modesty Misattributed

Author:Harry S. Truman

“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”

Inspirational Humor Politics Leaders Presidents

Author:Harry S. Truman

“You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!”

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Author:Harry S. Truman