Harry S. Truman Quotes About Cold War
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There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
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I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.
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In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.
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If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.
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This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.
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I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.
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We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
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We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.
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I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
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Unless Russia is face with an iron fist and strong language, another is in the making. Only one language do they understand - 'How many divisions have you?' ... I'm tired of babying the Soviets.
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I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle. And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb. But when history says that my term of office saw the begining of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it.
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The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.
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The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us.
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I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.
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