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Margaret Truman

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HARRY TRUMAN The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
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TRUMAN CAPOTE You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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TRUMAN CAPOTE You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quite sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frus...
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TRUMAN CAPOTE All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.
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JENNIFER TRUMAN Ariel took a lot of shots from all over the field. She was bound to find an opening for the goal.
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HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S TRUMAN When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN The buck stops here!
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HARRY S TRUMAN People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.
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HARRY S TRUMAN The Buck Stops Here
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HARRY S TRUMAN The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special repre...
HARRY S TRUMAN When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here,...
HARRY S TRUMAN You know, the greatest epitaph in the country is here in Arizona. Its in Tombstone, Ariz. , and this...
HARRY S TRUMAN There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the Presiden...
HARRY S TRUMAN Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
HARRY S TRUMAN Im proud that Im a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a poli...
HARRY S TRUMAN On May 14 I was informed that the Provisional Government of Israel was planning to proclaim a Jewish...
HARRY S TRUMAN A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cann...
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S. TRUMAN It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
HARRY S. TRUMAN I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
HARRY S. TRUMAN I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.
HARRY S. TRUMAN Start slow and taper off.
HARRY S. TRUMAN That government is best which governs least.
HARRY S. TRUMAN I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a po...
HARRY S. TRUMAN It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's v...
HARRY S. TRUMAN Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the su...
HARRY S. TRUMAN All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
HARRY S TRUMAN In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...sel...
HARRY S TRUMAN Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
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...
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