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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 13, 1948

Slums are the breeding spots of crime, sickness, and chaos in every large city in America.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 13, 1948

I think you are going to go to the polls and vote for the American way of life.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 13, 1948

For the first time in history you are going to have a chance to decide whether you want a government run by the people or whether you want a government run by special interest.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 13, 1948

I am more than happy to have this opportunity to talk to the people of Wisconsin.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 13, 1948

The fact is that after 16 years of Democratic Government, this whole country is prosperous, and I want to keep it that way.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 13, 1948

That is typical of the difference between the Democratic and the Republican attitudes towards the housing bill that we so badly need.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 13, 1948

You, the people, are the Government; and when you exercise your right to vote, you run the Government, and when you don't exercise your vote--as you didn't exercise it in 1946--you get such things as that 80th Congress, and you get just…

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 13, 1948

Wisconsin needs to regain her position in leadership in the cause of liberalism in the United States.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 13, 1948

A free society requires the supremacy of the civil rather than the military authority.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 13, 1948

The atomic bomb is the most terrible and devastating weapon that man has ever contrived.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 13, 1948

What happened to the Republican Party in Wisconsin has been repeated on a national level.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 13, 1948

Wisconsin is a State which gave us fighting Bob LaFollette; a State which has led all others in sound, progressive legislation.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Oct 13, 1948

What kind of hope is there when we brag about passing a mark set 22 years ago, when the needs, the job, and the problems were very much smaller?

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