Oct 18, 1948
Because they lived through days when reason was overcome by emotion, their acts were misunderstood and misinterpreted.
Harry Truman
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Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States, serving from April 12, 1945, to January 20, 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he assumed the presidency after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Truman is known for his decisive leadership during the final months of World War II, including the controversial decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which contributed to Japan's surrender. He also played a significant role in the early stages of the Cold War, implementing the Truman Doctrine to contain communism and establishing NATO.
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Oct 18, 1948
The strength of this Republic lies in the fact that so many millions of men and women, who held no office and aspire to none, recognize as clearly as Jackson, Polk, and Johnson did that they must serve their country before they serve…
Oct 18, 1948
A man more careful to preserve his own peace than to 'preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States' might have drifted into ways that would have ended in the destruction of the Union.
Oct 18, 1948
What each of them meant to his time, you have been told by many learned men.
Oct 18, 1948
It is good at such a time to pause to take strength and guidance from our country's past.
Oct 18, 1948
It takes courage to face a duelist with a pistol and it takes courage to face a British general with an army.
Oct 18, 1948
We dedicate here today not merely a monument to great men of the past, but also to the greatness of free men now and forever.
Oct 18, 1948
It has a message that is not only true as to the past, but it is also encouraging as to the future.
Oct 18, 1948
And this is the thing that these three men, different as they were in origin and in temperament, held in common.
Oct 18, 1948
Thomas Jefferson has been endlessly praised for adding 827,000 square miles to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase.
Oct 18, 1948
They deserve not only an enduring monument, but they deserve understanding and remembrance.
Oct 18, 1948
In their madness they were determined that the blood-letting should not stop.
Oct 18, 1948
A President may dismiss the abuse of scoundrels, but to be denounced by honest men honestly outraged is a test of greatness that none but the strongest men survive.
Oct 18, 1948
Jackson, Polk, and Johnson are gone. Yet they are forever a part of North Carolina.
Oct 18, 1948
Each of the three men whose fame this monument celebrates held the office of President in time of trouble.
Oct 18, 1948
In 1865 no man alive could have succeeded Abraham Lincoln without being subject to unfavorable comparisons.
Oct 18, 1948
To attempt to correct injustice by disunion is to apply a remedy that is worse than the disease.
Oct 18, 1948
In these new estimates, not one of the three has diminished in stature.
Oct 17, 1948
Our policy is not now and never has been directed against the Soviet Union.
Oct 17, 1948
The world has learned that it is weakness and appeasement that invite aggression.
Oct 17, 1948
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1917, I hereby revoke the said Executive Orders No. 589 of March 14, 1907, and No. 1712 of February 24, 1913, to the extent that they are…
Oct 17, 1948
We will never be a party to the kind of compromise which the world sums up in the disgraced name of Munich.
Oct 17, 1948
Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the said migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, do hereby approve and proclaim the…
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