More from Harry S. Truman

  1. I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers…
  2. Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
  3. Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who hav…
  4. It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
  5. I realize the tragic significance of the atomic bomb. Its production and its use were not lightly undertaken by this Government. But we kne…
  6. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
  7. If Japan does not surrender, bombs will have to be dropped on her war industries and, unfortunately, thousands of civilian lives will be lo…
  8. My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any differen…

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