Truman Quotes Harry S. Truman Quotes 鈥淲ithout a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.鈥� 鈥淣ot all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.鈥� 鈥淜eep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.鈥� 鈥淚n reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.鈥� 鈥淎 pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.鈥� 鈥淭here is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.鈥� 鈥淔or our day, and our children’s day, education must become a continuing adventure in human understanding, shared by all.鈥� 鈥淚f peace is to endure, education must establish the moral unity of 尘补苍办颈苍诲.鈥� 鈥淭he inherent dignity of man can only be exemplified through equality of opportunity for all. In striving toward that objective we look to the American school as a standard bearer.鈥� 鈥淭he unfettered soul of free man offers a spiritual defense unconquered and unconquerable.鈥� 鈥淭o take full advantage of the increasing possibilities of nature, we must equip ourselves with increasing knowledge.鈥� 鈥淲e must remember that we cannot insulate our children from the uncertainties of the world in which we live or from the impact of the problems which confront us all. What we can do and what we must do is to equip them to meet these problems, to do their part in the total effort, and to build up those inner resources of character which are the main strength of the American people.鈥� 鈥淲hat may have been sufficient yesterday is not sufficient today. New and terrible urgencies, new and terrible responsibilities, have been placed upon education.鈥� 鈥淣o nation can maintain a position of leadership in the world of today unless it develops to the full its scientific and technological resources. No government adequately meets its responsibilities unless it generously and intelligently supports and encourages the work of science in the university, industry and in its own laboratories.鈥� 鈥淚 think this country is great on account of its small educational institutions, more than anything else. In institutions such as these the teachers and professors can give individual attention to each member of class.鈥� 鈥淓ducation is our first line of defense. In the conflict of principle and policy which divides the world (today), America’s hope, our hope, the hope of the world, is in education.鈥� 鈥淭here is not really anything new, if you know what has gone before. What is new to people is what they do not know about their history or the history of the world.鈥�