Harry S. Truman Quotes
We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.
Truman, Harry S. "Address to the United Nations Conference in San Francisco," June 26, 1945. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1945, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961.
The irony was that it was by warfare that he conquered most of the Hawaiian Islands and formed them into a kingdom.
This idea came from Dutch Philosopher Benedict Spinoza. See his quotation from 1677.
She had gone to Europe where the 2nd World War was raging.
Harry S. Truman was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–53). He served as a United States Senator from Missouri (1935–45) and briefly as Vice President (1945) before he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was president during the final months of World War II, and approved the plan to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948. He presided over an uncertain domestic scene as America sought its path after the war and tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War.
