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Harry Truman: “We must be prepared to pay the price for peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war.”

On the recordMarch 16, 1948
We must be prepared to pay the price for peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe

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