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Harry Truman: “And when you don't go to the polls, and you get bad government, you have nobody to blame for it but yourselves.”

On the recordOctober 7, 1952
And when you don't go to the polls, and you get bad government, you have nobody to blame for it but yourselves.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Address in Shenandoah, Iowa

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