"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
-Harry S. Truman
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"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.“
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"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
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"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."
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"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
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"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences."
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"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."
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"Every country has the government it deserves."
-Joseph de Maistre
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"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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