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You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

~Harry S Truman

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It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

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A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

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In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

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I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

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It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: May 8th, 1884

Died: December 26th, 1972

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