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Quote DB :: Authors :: Harry Truman View all quotes by Harry Truman View all quotes in Presidency Quote Rating Rate "No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President." "I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to." "A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a single moment." "A President cannot always be popular." "The buck stops here." "I would rather have peace in the world than be President." "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." "Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past." 1

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