Frasi di Harry Truman
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Harry S. Truman è stato un politico statunitense.

È stato il 33º presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America.

✵ 8. Maggio 1884 – 26. Dicembre 1972   •   Altri nomi Harry Spencer Truman
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“In tutto il mondo ogni paese si trova sotto pressione economica. Paesi devastati dalla guerra cercano di ricostruire le loro industrie. Il loro bisogno di effettuare nei prossimi mesi importazioni sarà superiore alla loro capacità di esportare. Perciò essi sentono la necessità di controllare rigidamente le importazioni […]. Se questa tendenza non verrà rovesciata, il governo degli Stati uniti si troverà presto o tardi sotto pressione perché faccia uso anch'esso degli stessi strumenti, nella lotta per assicurarsi mercati di materie prime […]. Ma questo è proprio ciò che noi abbiamo sempre cercato di evitare sin dal la fine della guerra. Non è un metodo americano. Non è la via verso la pace […]. Il nostro popolo è unito. Esso è stato capace di comprendere le sue responsabilità. Esso è pronto ad assumere il proprio ruolo di guida. Esso è risoluto a operare per un ordine internazionale nel quale la pace e l'ordine siano durevoli. Pace e libertà non sono raggiunte in modo facile. Non possono essere ottenute con la forza. Esse vengono dalla mutua comprensione e collaborazione, dal desiderio di condursi lealmente in tutti campi politici economici con tutte le nazioni amiche. Sia nostra volontà continuare in questa via ora e nel futuro. Se altre nazioni del mondo faranno altrettanto, sarà possibile raggiungere l'obiettivo della pace e della libertà nel mondo.”

Origine: Citato in Ennio Di Nolfo, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. [Dal 1918 ai giorni nostri], Editori Laterza, Roma, 2008, pp. 694-695. ISBN 978-88-420-8734-2

Harry Truman: Frasi in inglese

“I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!”

Third Radner Lecture, Columbia University, New York City (29 April 1959), as published in Truman Speaks : Lectures And Discussions Held At Columbia University On April 27, 28, And 29, 1959 (1960), p. 111

“No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.”

Harry Truman at Chicago, 17 March 1945, as recorded in Good Old Harry

“I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them … that's all the powers of the President amount to.”

Quoted by Richard Neustadt in Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership http://books.google.com/books?id=-rxEAAAAIAAJ&q="I+sit+here+all+day+trying+to+persuade+people+to+do+the+things+they+ought+to+have+sense+enough+to+do+without+my+persuading+them"+"that's+all+the+powers+of+the+President+amount+to" (1964)

“Nothing but a damn bunch of bullshit!”

On General Douglas MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die" speech, as quoted in The Fifties (1993) by David Halberstam

“One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.”

Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=DVVffTwVVy4C&q=%22One+of+the+difficulties+with+all+our+institutions+is+the+fact+that+we've+emphasized+the+reward+instead+of+the+service%22&pg=PA166#v=onepage to Harold E. Moore (27 September 1949)

“I was the only calm one in the house. You see I’ve been shot at by experts.”

Comment on his World War I experience after an assassination attempt on (1 November 1950) as quoted in Bess W. Truman (1986) by Margaret Truman

“People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.”

Letter to George H. Earle, former governor of Pennsylvania (received 28 February 1947); reported in The New York Times (3 April 1947), p. 17, quoting Earle.

“Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.”

Statement to a group of four congress freshmen (2 July 1947), as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44

“I am not sure it can ever be used… I don't think we ought to use this thing unless we absolutely have to. It is a terrible thing to order the use of something that is so terribly destructive, destructive beyond anything we have ever had. You have got to understand that this isn’t a military weapon. It is used to wipe out women and children and unarmed people, and not for military uses. So we have got to treat this differently from rifles and cannon and ordinary things like that.”

Regarding nuclear weapons, as quoted in Harry S. Truman: A Life https://books.google.com/books?id=7UXSMj3OF4oC&pg=PA344&lpg=PA344&dq=%22It+is+used+to+wipe+out+women+and+children+and+unarmed+people,+and+not+for+military+uses.+So+we+have+got+to+treat+this+differently+from+rifles+and+cannon+and+ordinary+things+like+that.%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=xoePU9q9JU&sig=Lxl_x7toU7Y3oD_zKKSZQ2zD29k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCgQ6AEwA2oVChMIw7D1wb6dxwIVSjI-Ch3ibAd2#v=onepage&q=%22It%20is%20used%20to%20wipe%20out%20women%20and%20children%20and%20unarmed%20people%2C%20and%20not%20for%20military%20uses.%20So%20we%20have%20got%20to%20treat%20this%20differently%20from%20rifles%20and%20cannon%20and%20ordinary%20things%20like%20that.%E2%80%9D&f=false, by Robert H. Ferrell, p. 344

“Senator Barkley and I will win this election and make these Republicans like it — don't forget that! We will do that because they are wrong and we are right, and I will prove it to you in just a few minutes.”

Address to the Democratic National Convention (15 July 1948) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/33_truman/psources/ps_convention48.html; this has often been paraphrased as: "They are wrong and we are right and I'm going to prove it to you!"

“The buck stops here!”

This saying, also popularized by Truman, was on a sign on his desk https://www.trumanlibrary.org/buckstop.htm, but did not originate with him. According to the Truman Presidential Library, it was sent to him nearly two months after the Hiroshima atomic bombing.
Misattributed

“Your old friend Congressman Hartley of the Taft Hartley team … has written a book … The title of this book is Our New National Labor Policy, the Taft-Hartley Act and the Next Steps.”

Get that: "The Next Steps" … They're going even further! … The Republicans favor a minimum wage — the smaller the minimum the better.
Harry Truman at Akron (11 October 1948), Good Old Harry

“People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo... the country is perfectly safe so far as Communism is concerned—we have too many sane people.”

Letter to George H. Earle, former governor of Pennsylvania (received 28 February 1947); reported in The New York Times (3 April 1947), p. 17, quoting Earle.
Origine: [McCullough, David G., Truman, 2003, Simon & Schuster, 978-0-7432-6029-9, 655, 869432463]

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