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Harry Truman: The way to meet this attack is to show that it is false--to live up to our ideals--to prove that we mean them.

On the recordJuly 3, 1951
The way to meet this attack is to show that it is false--to live up to our ideals--to prove that we mean them.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Ceremonies Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

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