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Harry Truman: “If men and nations would but live by the precepts of the ancient prophets and the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount…”

On the recordMarch 5, 1946
If men and nations would but live by the precepts of the ancient prophets and the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, problems which now seem so difficult would soon disappear.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address in Columbus at a Conference of the Federal Council of Churches.

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