My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. … - Harry S. Truman

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Harry S. Truman

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.

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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

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Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

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I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

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