"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
-Harry S. Truman
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"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.“
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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."
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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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