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Harry Truman: “It is your duty--you come from every section of the United States--to see if you can't revive that moral force in our…”

On the recordFebruary 20, 1951
It is your duty--you come from every section of the United States--to see if you can't revive that moral force in our own population that causes a man to give some sacrifice for the welfare of the rest of the human race.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks at a Masonic Breakfast.

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