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О помощи СССР в начавшейся Великой Отечественной войне
Вариант: Если мы увидим, что войну выигрывает Германия, нам следует помогать России, если будет выигрывать Россия, нам следует помогать Германии, и пусть они как можно больше убивают друг друга, хотя мне не хочется ни при каких условиях видеть Гитлера в победителях. Ни один из них не держит обещанного слова.

О войне

„Если вам нужен друг в Вашингтоне, заведите собаку.“

Гарри Трумэн

О собаках

„Будь всегда искренен, даже если у тебя на уме совсем другое.“

Гарри Трумэн

Источник: Афоризмы — искренность http://libreria.ru/aphorismes/topics/346/

„8 мая 1964 г., празднуя своё 80-летие, Трумэн заявил представителям печати: «Я направил японцам предупреждение о том, что мы располагаем самой мощной взрывной и разрушающей силой в мире.»“

Гарри Трумэн

Об атомных бомбардировках Хиросимы и Нагасаки
Источник: Из книги А-Бомба http://urakami.narod.ru/lib/books/abomb/chapter16_1.html

О мире , О силе

„Если не можете убедить — сбейте с толку.“

Гарри Трумэн

Источник: Модная Россия — Афоризмы http://www.niv.ru/library/003/042.htm

„Государственный муж — это политик, умерший 10 или 15 лет назад.“

Гарри Трумэн

Источник: Коллекция афоризмов — Политика http://www.niv.ru/library/003/134.htm

„Это величайшее дело в истории!“

Гарри Трумэн

Об атомных бомбардировках Хиросимы и Нагасаки
Источник: Проект Рамблер-Победа http://pobeda.rambler.ru/japan.html

Об истории

„Тот, кто имеет союзников, уже не вполне независим.“

Гарри Трумэн

Источник: Журнал «Россия в глобальной политике» http://www.globalaffairs.ru/numbers/5/2012.html

„Спад — это когда ваш сосед теряет работу, кризис — когда работу теряете вы.“

Гарри Трумэн

Источник: Журнал «Социальное партнерство» http://www.oilru.com/sp/1/44/

„В 1945 году Трумэн на приеме сказал командиру самолёта Энола Гэй Полу Тиббетсу: «Никогда не испытывайте чувства вины. Это мое решение. Вы солдат и у вас не было выбора.»“

Гарри Трумэн

Об атомных бомбардировках Хиросимы и Нагасаки
Источник: Интервью с Полом Тиббетсом http://www.chayka.org/article.php?id=852

О чувствах , О решении

„Белый дом — самая прекрасная тюрьма в мире.“

Гарри Трумэн

Источник: Афоризмы об Америке и американцах http://libreria.ru/aphorismes/topics/17/

О мире , О доме

„Я человек с восемью язвами на четырехъязвенном жалованье.“

Гарри Трумэн

Источник: Афоризмы о зарплате http://blog.i.ua/user/416608/21879/

О мужчинах

„Хватит, мы не заинтересованы больше в союзе с русскими, а стало быть, можем и не выполнять договоренностей с ними. Проблему Японии решим и без помощи русских.“

Гарри Трумэн

23 апреля 1945 года, на заседании Белого дома

О проблемах , О помощи

„Мы разработали самое ужасное оружие в истории человечества… Это оружие будет применено против Японии… так, чтобы военные объекты, солдаты и моряки были целями, а не женщины и дети. Даже если японцы дикие — беспощадны, жестоки и фанатичны, то мы, как руководители мира, для общего блага не можем сбросить эту ужасную бомбу ни на старую, ни на новую столицу.“

Гарри Трумэн

Об атомных бомбардировках Хиросимы и Нагасаки

О детях , О мире , Об истории , О женщинах

„Именно мне пришлось решать, где и когда следовало применить атомную бомбу. Пусть люди не обманываются: я всегда считал эту бомбу военным оружием, и я никогда не сомневался в том, что её применение — мой долг. Самые высшие военные советники президента рекомендовали её применение, и, когда я посоветовался по этому делу с Черчиллем, тот без колебаний сказал, что он стоит за применение атомной бомбы, если это может ускорить окончание войны.“

Гарри Трумэн

Об атомных бомбардировках Хиросимы и Нагасаки

О мужчинах , О войне

„В конце концов имеет значение только то, чему ты научился и что по-настоящему усвоил.“

Гарри Трумэн

Гарри Трумэн: Цитаты на английском языке

“When requested by the Committee to do so, persons in the armed services or in any of the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall testify before the Committee and shall make available for use of the Committee such documents and other information as the Committee may require.”

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Harry Truman

Executive Order 9981 (1948)

“What do you mean "helped create"? I am Cyrus. I am Cyrus.”

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Response to being described by his friend Eddie Jacobsen as "the man who helped create the state of Israel." (November 1953); as quoted in "With Eyes Toward Zion" (1977) by Moshe Davis

“We are in a troublesome period, and some "nonsense" as you term it — but this is a great nation with a high purpose, and we shall come to our senses and resume our course.”

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On problems during the Vietnam War, in a letter to Charles Kennedy (18 March 1970)

“It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another in either an election or horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish line that counts.”

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As quoted in Bush's Brain : How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential (2003) by Wayne Slater and James Moore, p. 173

“And as I say to you, whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court, he ceases to be your friend, you can be sure of that.”

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Reported in Truman Speaks (1960), p. 59.

“If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

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This saying was popularized by Truman after he publicly used it in 1952. It was soon credited to his aide Harry H. Vaughan in TIME (28 April 1952) but apparently originated with a Missouri colleague of Truman, Eugene "Buck" Purcell, according to The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, And When (2006) by Ralph Keyes. Truman himself later made reference to his popularization of the remark in his book Mr. Citizen (1960), p. 229:
: There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives of tens of millions of people around the world, but that does not mean that they should take longer to make. Some men can make decisions and some cannot. Some men fret and delay under criticism. I used to have a saying that applies here, and I note that some people have picked it up, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
Misattributed

“I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.”

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Mr. Citizen, Harry Truman (1960)

“The Committee shall continue to exist until such time as the President shall terminate its existence by Executive order.”

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Executive Order 9981 (1948)

“Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.”

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Attributed without citation in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1992) by Angela Partington, disputed in The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 224, as something Truman is not known to have said, nor was likely to have said.
Disputed

“The Committee is authorized on behalf of the President to examine into the rules, procedures and practices of the Armed Services in order to determine in what respect such rules, procedures and practices may be altered or improved with a view to carrying out the policy of this order. The Committee shall confer and advise the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force, and shall make such recommendations to the President and to said Secretaries as in the judgment of the Committee will effectuate the policy hereof.”

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Executive Order 9981 (1948)

“The United States has a tremendous responsibility to act according to the measure of our power for good in the world. We have learned that we must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic effort. At no time in our history has unity among our people been so vital as it is at the present time. Unity of purpose, unity of effort, and unity of spirit are essential to accomplish the task before us.”

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Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe (1948)

“They couldn't include me in it because I was the President, and I can be elected as often as I want to be. I'm going to run again when I'm ninety. I've announced that a time or two, and you know, some damn fool looked the situation over and said, "When you're ninety, it's an off year," so I can't even run then. I didn't know I was going to stir up all that trouble...”

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On the 22nd Amendment limiting a president to two terms, in a lecture at Columbia University (28 April 1959)

“Almost 3 years have elapsed since the end of the greatest of all wars, but peace and stability have not returned to the world. We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of peace after the fighting is over has always been a difficult task. And even if all the Allies of World War II were united in their desire to establish a just and honorable peace, there would still be great difficulties in the way of achieving that peace.”

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Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe (1948)

“So much blood has already been shed for the ideals which we cherish, and for which Franklin Delano Roosevelt lived and died, that we dare not permit even a momentary pause in the hard fight for victory.
Today, the entire world is looking to America for enlightened leadership to peace and progress. Such a leadership requires vision, courage and tolerance. It can be provided only by a united nation deeply devoted to the highest ideals.”

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Address to Congress (1945)

“I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.”

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Address at the National Convention Banquet of the Americans for Democratic Action (17 May 1952) https://trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1296&st=republican+party&st1=

“There shall be created in the National Military Establishment an advisory committee to be known as the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, which shall be composed of seven members to be designated by the President.”

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Executive Order 9981 (1948)

“He’s one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.”

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On Richard Nixon, as quoted Plain Speaking : An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman (1974) by Merle Miller, p. 179

“All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with — and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.”

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Harry Truman in Detroit (14 May 1950), as recorded in Good Old Harry

“I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.”

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Lecture at Columbia University (28 April 1959)

“The principles and the purposes expressed in the Charter of the United Nations continue to represent our hope for the eventual establishment of the rule of law in international affairs. The Charter constitutes the basic expression of the code of international ethics to which this country is dedicated. We cannot, however, close our eyes to the harsh fact that through obstruction and even defiance on the part of one nation, this great dream has not yet become a full reality. It is necessary, therefore, that we take additional measures to supplement the work of the United Nations and to support its aims. There are times in world history when it is far wiser to act than to hesitate. There is some risk involved in action — there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act. For if we act wisely now, we shall strengthen the powerful forces for freedom, justice, and peace which are represented by the United Nations and the free nations of the world.”

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Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe (1948)

“No man can get rich in politics unless he's a crook.”

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Вариант: Similarly on pg. 136: "About this getting rich in politics. Like I said, you just can't do it unless you're a crook." And earlier: "An honest public servant can't become rich in politics." - Truman's diary, 24 April 1954.
Источник: Harry S Truman, quoted in Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman by Merle Miller, 1973-1974 SBN 425-02664-7 LOC 73-87198, Berkeley Medallion Edition, October, 1974, Chapter 10. "The Only Defeat − and Then Victory", pg. 134.

“It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
Before 1939, it was the accepted belief of scientists that it was theoretically possible to release atomic energy. But no one knew any practical method of doing it. By 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world. But they failed. We may be grateful to Providence that the Germans got the V-1's and V-2's late and in limited quantities and even more grateful that they did not get the atomic bomb at all.”

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Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)

“No government is perfect. One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.”

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Speech to a joint session of the US Congress (12 March 1947), outlining what became known as The Truman Doctrine

“Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me. I've got the most terribly responsible job a man ever had.”

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Comment to reporters on having become president the day before, after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, (13 April 1945) as quoted in Conflict and Crisis : The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948 by Robert J. Donovan, p. 17; also quoted in "Thoughts Of A President, 1945" at Eyewitness to History http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tru.htm, and TIME magazine (12 April1968) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,838136-9,00.html

“I believe that we have learned the importance of maintaining military strength as a means of preventing war. We have found that a sound military system is necessary in time of peace if we are to remain at peace. Aggressors in the past, relying on our apparent lack of military force, have unwisely precipitated war. Although they have been led to destruction by their misconception of our strength, we have paid a terrible price for our unpreparedness.”

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Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe (1948)

“In bitter despair, some people have come to believe that wars are inevitable. With tragic fatalism, they insist that wars have always been, of necessity, and of necessity wars always will be. To such defeatism, men and women of good will must not and can not yield. The outlook for humanity is not so hopeless.”

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Address to Congress (1945)

“Tell him to go to hell; I'm for Jimmy Byrnes.”

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Upon hearing that Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted him to be his vice presidential running mate (21 July 1944), as quoted in Choosing Truman : The Democratic Convention of 1944 (1994); also quoted in "Harry S. Truman : America's last great leader?" in USA Today magazine (January 1995) by the Society for the Advancement of Education http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2596_v123/ai_16399945

“My forebears were Confederates… but my very stomach turned over when I had learned that Negro soldiers, just back from overseas, were being dumped out of Army trucks in Mississippi and beaten.”

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As quoted in Harry S. Truman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#CITEREFTruman1973 (1973), by Margaret Truman, New York: William Morrow, p. 429

“When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.”

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As quoted in Plain Speaking : An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman (1974) by Merle Miller, p. 228

“There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests, and that the interests of the great mass of the other people — the 150 or 160 million — is the responsibility of the president of the United States, and I propose to fulfill it.”

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As quoted by John F. Kennedy in an address in Atlantic City at the Convention of the United Auto Workers (8 May 1962) As reported in the Ready Reference: John F. Kennedy Quotations of John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx