I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.


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I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
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Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
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The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
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The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
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Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coatta...
CLARENCE DARROW
Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
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MONICA CROWLEY
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
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I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
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Excellent,” said Lupin, looking up as Tonks and Harry entered.
“We’ve got about a minute...
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Give God your weakness and hell give you its Strength
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.
JIM CARREY
I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.
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When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ...
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Hell is truth seen too late - duty neglected in its season
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Give it up for Harry Pottery
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15...
HARRY S TRUMAN
We're going to be buried out here. I like the idea because I may just want to get up some day and st...
HARRY S TRUMAN
It is terrible-and I mean terrible-nuisance to be kin to the president of the United States.
HARRY S TRUMAN
This is the day we have been waiting for since Pearl Harbor. This is the day when Fascism finally di...
HARRY S TRUMAN
When you've done the best you can, you can't do any better
HARRY S TRUMAN
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members
HARRY S TRUMAN
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustic...
HARRY S TRUMAN
If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military
HARRY S TRUMAN
The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know
HARRY S TRUMAN
The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of m...
HARRY S TRUMAN
He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to ru...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan I know he's going to vote against me
HARRY S TRUMAN
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registerin...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.
HARRY S TRUMAN
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
HARRY S TRUMAN
The White House is the finest prison in the world.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious futur...
HARRY S TRUMAN
To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.
HARRY S TRUMAN
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little pl...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remai...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Tita...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Do you know why they call it 'PMS'? Because 'Mad Cow Disease' was already taken.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back
HARRY S TRUMAN
There Are Three Kinds of People - Those Who Can Count and Those Who Can't
HARRY S TRUMAN
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure
HARRY S TRUMAN
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will r...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both si...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The atom bomb was no ''great decision.'' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of rig...
HARRY S TRUMAN