Harry S. Truman Quotes About Liberty

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  • Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

    Home  
    Address at National Archives, Washington, D.C., 15 Dec. 1952
  • When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

    Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959, in Truman Speaks (1960) p. 51
  • Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of countries from losing their liberty. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world now agree with us, that we need not have war-that we can have peace.

    Country   Peace   War  
    Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1949
  • Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

    Harry S. Truman (1956). “The Truman administration, its principles and practice”
  • There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

    Country   Men  
    Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.345, New Word City
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Harry S. Truman

  • Born: May 8, 1884
  • Died: December 26, 1972
  • Occupation: 33rd U.S. President
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