Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman
Harry S. Trumanwas the 33rd President of the United States, an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a United States Senator from Missouriand briefly as Vice Presidentbefore he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was president during the final months of World War II, making the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948. He presided...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth8 May 1884
CountryUnited States of America
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.
We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for human welfare and happiness, so limitless in their scope; our material prosperity, so far surpassing that of earlier years; and our private spiritual blessings, so deeply cherished by all. For these we offer fervent thanks to God.
Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.
About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.
In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.
How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."
When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.
I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.
If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.
There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.