If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

Harry S. Truman · Memoirs (1956), vol. II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch. 19

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

Harry S. Truman · In Merle Miller, Plain Speaking (1974), ch. 23

I never give the public hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.

Harry S. Truman · The source reads: “I never give them [the public] hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.”

I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

Harry S. Truman · The source reads: “When they told me yesterday what had happened [the death of F. D. Roosevelt], I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.” · To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency (April 13, 1945)

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I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.

Margaret Chase Smith · The source reads: “The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.” · Declaration of Conscience, U.S. Senate (June 1, 1950)

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Samuel Johnson

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Thomas Drummond

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“If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.”

“The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.”

“I never give the public hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.”

“I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.”

“I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”

“Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.”

“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”