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Quote DB :: Authors :: Harry Truman :: View Quote View Quote "I would rather have peace in the world than be President." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Harry Truman Listed in: Presidency, War & Peace Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 3.91  Rate Quote 11 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Harry Truman "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." "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." "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." "There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know." Top 5 quotes from Presidency, War & Peace "Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago." "I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts." "Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal." "A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." "If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!"

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