To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.
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
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
This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study… - Harry S. Truman
This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study…
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 … - 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 …
I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore. - Harry S. Truman
I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
Men make history, not the other way around. - Harry S. Truman
Men make history, not the other way around.
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
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
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
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.
To me party platforms are contracts with the people. - Harry S. Truman
To me party platforms are contracts with the people.
We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will. - Harry S. Truman
We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.
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