rozmowa, która odbyła się w październiku 1945.
Źródło: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Edyta Czerwonka, odcinek 3
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Harry S. Truman słynne cytaty
w odpowiedzi na list Federalnej Rady Kościołów (Federal Council of Churches) w sprawie ataków nuklearnych na Hiroszimę i Nagasaki.
Źródło: Fred Jerome, Akta Einsteina, tłum. Krzysztof Kurek, wyd. Amber 2003, s. 66.
„To największe zdarzenie w dziejach.”
o zrzuceniu dwóch bomb jądrowych na Hiroszimę i Nagasaki.
Źródło: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Edyta Czerwonka, odcinek 3
po otrzymaniu szczegółowego raportu na temat pracy nad bombą atomową.
Harry S. Truman cytaty
do dziennikarzy podczas pierwszej konferencji prasowej, po nieoczekiwanym objęciu prezydentury.
Źródło: Bogusław Wołoszański, Tajna wojna Hitlera, wyd. Colori, Warszawa 1997.
I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. (ang.)
doktryna Trumana, 12 marca 1947.
„Należy ograniczyć rolę CIA do zbierania informacji.”
w 1963, w reakcji na zamach na prezydenta Kennedy’ego.
Źródło: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 4
Autorka: Dorothy Day
o zrzuceniu dwóch bomb jądrowych na Hiroszimę i Nagasaki.
Źródło: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Edyta Czerwonka, odcinek 3
Źródło: dziennik z 1947, cyt. za: Truman był antysemitą?, PAP, 11 lipca 2003 http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1356,title,Truman-byl-antysemita,wid,1198696,wiadomosc.html
Źródło: Artur Domosławski, Gorączka latynoamerykańska, wyd. Świat Książki, Warszawa 2010, s. 228.
przemówienie z 1950, krytyka polityki makkartyzmu.
Źródło: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 5
prywatna opinia z lat 30.
Źródło: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Edyta Czerwonka, odcinek 3
zapisane w dzienniku z Poczdamu.
Źródło: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Edyta Czerwonka, odcinek 3
Harry S. Truman: Cytaty po angielsku
Address at the National Archives dedicating a shrine for the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights (15 December 1952) https://trumanlibrary.org/calendar/viewpapers.php?pid=2102
Kontekst: Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
All freedom-loving nations, not the United States alone, are facing a stern challenge from the Communist tyranny. In the circumstances, alarm is justified. The man who isn't alarmed simply doesn't understand the situation — or he is crazy. But alarm is one thing, and hysteria is another. Hysteria impels people to destroy the very thing they are struggling to preserve.
Invasion and conquest by Communist armies would be a horror beyond our capacity to imagine. But invasion and conquest by Communist ideas of right and wrong would be just as bad.
For us to embrace the methods and morals of communism in order to defeat Communist aggression would be a moral disaster worse than any physical catastrophe. If that should come to pass, then the Constitution and the Declaration would be utterly dead and what we are doing today would be the gloomiest burial in the history of the world.
“The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world.”
Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)
Kontekst: The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world. That is why Great Britain, Canada, and the United States, who have the secret of its production, do not intend to reveal that secret until means have been found to control the bomb so as to protect ourselves and the rest of the world from the danger of total destruction.
Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
Kontekst: We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city. We shall destroy their docks, their factories, and their communications. Let there be no mistake; we shall completely destroy Japan's power to make war.
It was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction that the ultimatum of July 26 was issued at Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.
Źródło: Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)
Kontekst: Our victory in Europe was more than a victory of arms.
It was a victory of one way of life over another. It was a victory of an ideal founded on the rights of the common man, on the dignity of the human being, on the conception of the State as the servant — and not the master — of its people.
A free people showed that it was able to defeat professional soldiers whose only moral arms were obedience and the worship of force.
We tell ourselves that we have emerged from this war the most powerful nation in the world — the most powerful nation, perhaps, in all history. That is true, but not in the sense some of us believe it to be true.
The war has shown us that we have tremendous resources to make all the materials for war. It has shown us that we have skillful workers and managers and able generals, and a brave people capable of bearing arms.
All these things we knew before.
The new thing — the thing which we had not known — the thing we have learned now and should never forget, is this: that a society of self-governing men is more powerful, more enduring, more creative than any other kind of society, however disciplined, however centralized.
Address to Congress (1945)
Kontekst: It is not enough to yearn for peace. We must work, and if necessary, fight for it. The task of creating a sound international organization is complicated and difficult. Yet, without such organization, the rights of man on earth cannot be protected. Machinery for the just settlement of international differences must be found. Without such machinery, the entire world will have to remain an armed camp. The world will be doomed to deadly conflict, devoid of hope for real peace.
“It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.”
Quoted in The Observer 13 April 1958
“The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.”
As quoted in Plain Speaking : An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman (1974) by Merle Miller, p. 26
“I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think it's hell.”
Źródło: As quoted in My Fellow Americans : The Most Important Speeches of America's Presidents (2003) by Michael Waldman, p. 137
“The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.”
Harry Truman at Akron (11 October 1948), Good Old Harry
Kontekst: 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.
Kontekst: 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.
Kontekst: Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing. They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights. They favor minimum wage--the smaller the minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.... They think American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people. And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it. − Harry S. Truman, October 13, 1948, St. Paul, Minnesota, Radio Broadcast.
Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=r03gAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+have+found+the+best+way+to+give+advice+to+your+children+is+to+find+out+what+they+want+and+then+advise+them+to+do+it%22&pg=PA104#v=onepage with Margaret Truman, sitting in for host Edward R. Murrow, on Person to Person, CBS Television ( 27 May 1955 http://www.tv.com/shows/person-to-person/may-27-1955-1040725/)
As quoted in Esquire, Vol. 76 (1971), also in Truman's Crises : A Political Biography of Harry S. Truman (1980) by Harold Foote Gosnell, p. 9; sometimes paraphrased: Being a politician is like being a piano player in a whorehouse.
“If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.”
Despite being quoted as a remark of Truman by both George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, this apparently originates from a line in the portrayal of Truman in the play Give ‘Em Hell, Harry (1975) by Samuel Gallu : "You want a friend in life, get a dog!" This was later paraphrased by Maureen Dowd (10 March 1989): "If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog." But prior to Gallu's play their is no actual indication Truman ever said this, according to investigations by David Rothman In "Google Book Search, Harry S. Truman and the get-a-dog quote: Presidential library unable to confirm it" (28 June 2008) http://www.teleread.com/books/google-book-search-harry-s-truman-and-the-get-a-dog-quote-presidential-library-unable-to-confirm-it/
Misattributed
Special Message to the Congress: The President's First Economic Report (1947)
Źródło: https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/4/special-message-congress-presidents-first-economic-report
“Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.”
Lecture at Columbia University (28 April 1959)
“Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.”
Wariant: Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
