Truman

by David McCullough

Never do anything wrong to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so, is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

From David McCullough's "Truman".

“the Lord made a white man of dust, a nigger from mud, then threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman.”

if fame is to be obtained only by marching to the cannon’s mouth, he’s perfectly willing to go there provided the cannon is empty. . . .”

I believe in, [he said] and I conceive the Constitution of the United States to rest, as does religion, upon the fundamental proposition of the integrity of the individual; and that all Government and all private institutions must be designed to promote and protect and defend the integrity and the dignity of the individual. . . .

David Lilenthal

The man who sits here ought to know his American history, at least.” When Truman talked of presidents past—Jackson, Polk, Lincoln—it was as if he had known them personally. If ever there was a “clean break from all that had gone before,” he would say, the result would be chaos.

Thank God Trump knows Frederick Douglass personally.