Political Quotes

On the recordOctober 24, 1948
We must not imagine, just because we love freedom, that freedom is safe--that our freedom is safe.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Address in the Chicago Stadium

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I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.

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I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.

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