Harry S. Truman Quotes
Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.
Truman, Harry S. "Commencement Address at Washington College." Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1946, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962.
Khrushchev did not originate this quotation. It was first stated by Lenin. See {620087}.
Tragically, the world paid a terrible price for the German upheaval before the better world finally emerged.
1st Duke of Wellington
Vladimir Lenin. In 1957 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev used the first sentence of this quotation in a speech to the Supreme Soviet. See {240121}. He did not say that he was quoting Lenin, but many of the delegates probably knew this.
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.
