Truman Korean War Quotes

He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time. ~ Harry S. Truman

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won. ~ Helen Thomas

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people. ~ Paul Robeson

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism. ~ Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention. ~ Charles B. Rangel

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist. ~ Chang-rae Lee

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. ~ Clint Eastwood

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower. ~ Aly Khan

I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited with 2 Russian-built Mig-15 destroyed during the Korean War. Where I was in 1953. ~ Buzz Aldrin

I was drafted during the Korean War. ~ Clint Eastwood

As soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done. ~ Harry S. Truman

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that. ~ Ang Lee

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War. ~ Daniel J. Evans

The absence of war is not peace. ~ Harry S. Truman

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth. ~ Harry S. Truman

We are trying to prevent a third world war. ~ Harry S. Truman

I will bring more Korean dance moves and Korean songs overseas. ~ Psy

These Korean shopkeepers seem pretty angry at me for not being Korean. ~ Stephen Schneider

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another. ~ Harry S. Truman

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship. ~ Chuck Feeney

The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world. ~ Harry Truman

O'Dell's driver was a broad man with a Korean War crew cut, his hair the color of rolled steel. A hatchet nose split basalt eyes, and his lips were dry and thick: a Gila monster's. ~ John Sandford

I wanted to do what Marilyn Monroe did (during the Korean War), when she went and just set up a stage and did a concert for the troops all by herself. It's so amazing seeing that one woman just going somewhere, this beautiful sex kitten, who's basically a pinup, which is what I've always aspired to be. ~ Lindsay Lohan

Some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs. ~ Harry Truman

Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century. ~ Charles Krauthammer

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. ~ Harry Truman

With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that. ~ Linda Sue Park

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace. ~ Harry S. Truman

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell. ~ Harry S. Truman

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury. ~ Lee Myung-bak

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima ... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East. ~ Harry S. Truman

I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California. ~ Douglas MacArthur

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook. ~ Harry Truman

A military situation at its worst can inspire fighting men to perform at their best. ~ Marguerite Higgins

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough. ~ Min Jin Lee

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds. ~ Harry S. Truman

The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us. ~ Harry S. Truman

At the beginning of this year also, I called upon the North Korean side to open dialog between the responsible authorities of the South and the North at any place, at any time, and at any level, in order to prevent a recurrence of war and to cooperate to speed up the peaceful unification of our fatherland. However, no sincere response has yet been made by North Korea. ~ Jimmy Carter

So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime. ~ Kim Dae-jung

I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt. ~ Gore Vidal

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean. ~ Chris Hardwick

In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree that after the war began, the North Korean Army captured Seoul in three days and pushed as far south as Pusan before American troops arrived to drive back the North Koreans nearly as far north as the border to China. ~ Sheryl WuDunn

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left. ~ Ban Ki-moon

He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army. ~ Harry S. Truman

Stretch your arms no further than your sleeve's reach. ~ Korean Proverb.

But all of us-at home, at war, wherever we may be-are within the reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will. ~ Harry S. Truman

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam. ~ Don DeLillo

The price of gold was fixed at $35 an ounce in 1934, but by the time the U.S. got through the Korean War, the Vietnam war, with all the associated secular inflation, the price level had gone up nearly three times. ~ Robert Mundell

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act. ~ Harry S. Truman

People say to us, look, it may well be the case that there are fewer wars and fewer genocides, but surely more people are being killed. But when we look at this, the number of people killed in wars involving a state every year, all the wars, and you can see there's a high point, that's the Korean war, and it keeps on going down and down and down. If you look at the average number of people killed per conflict per year, it goes from 37-thousand in 1950 to just 600 in 2002. ~ Andrew Mack

The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist. ~ Pankaj Mishra

The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units. ~ J. Anthony Lukas

He called after her as she
disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry ... ~ Truman Capote

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight. ~ Ban Ki-moon

What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary. My chief virtue is gratitude ~ Truman Capote

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. ~ Harry S. Truman

Everyone is against Harry (Truman) except the people. ~ Clark Griffith

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons. ~ Kim Hyesoon

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils. ~ Park Chan-wook

I like Korean employees, and I like Korean tenants. ~ Donald Sterling

Sister who lived with men without marrying them. All ~ Truman Capote

which is a venomous lie from start to finish ~ Truman Capote

If Sony's not going to show 'The Interview,' that's it. No more North Korean movies for me. ~ Conan O'Brien

So little, once it has changed, changes back. ~ Truman Capote

Silently, wallowing in the pleasures of conspiracy, ~ Truman Capote

You musn't give your heart to a wild thing. ~ Truman Capote

Work is the only device I know of. ~ Truman Capote

Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny. ~ Harry Truman

him up, of course. I don't know whether they ~ Harry Truman

I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows. ~ Truman Capote

You can't have anything worthwhile without difficulties. ~ Harry Truman

worked, the bomb, in all probability, would shorten ~ Harry Truman

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles. ~ Truman Capote

Excitement - a variety of creative coma - overcame me. ~ Truman Capote

Her fingers tested the reality of his chin. ~ Truman Capote

The midnight hours were her time to be selfish and vain ~ Truman Capote

I'm just a politician from Missouri and proud of it. ~ Harry Truman

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays. ~ Truman Capote

And that Perry could not abide: anyone's ridiculing the parrot, ~ Truman Capote

it was not a place that strangers came upon by chance. ~ Truman Capote

The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on the plains of Europe and fight the Chinese on the Korean peninsula at the same time. That costs an awful lot of money. ~ Joe Klein

We must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic effort. At no time in our history has unity among our people been so vital as it is at the present time. Unity of purpose, unity of effort, and unity of spirit are essential to accomplish the task before us. ~ Harry S. Truman

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase. ~ Truman Capote

My yardstick is how somebody treats me. ~ Truman Capote

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law. ~ Harry S. Truman

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say. ~ Truman Capote

Never pump the well dry; always leave a bucket there. ~ Truman Capote

It is easy to ignore the rain if you have a raincoat ~ Truman Capote

Always, the path unwinds through lemony sun pools and pitch vine tunnels. ~ Truman Capote

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year. ~ James Fallows

One lost an IQ point for every year spent on the West Coast ~ Truman Capote

His voice with its Cuban accent was soft and sweet as a banana. ~ Truman Capote

We huddle in the bed, and she squeezes my hand I-love-you. ~ Truman Capote

You musn't give yur hearth to wild things... ~ Truman Capote

The union of our arms in ~ Harry Truman

Believe and you're halfway there. ~ Harry Truman

If you are not admired no one will take the trouble to disapprove. ~ Truman Capote

It was a tricky quality that suggested, well, magic and things read in books, ~ Truman Capote

Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward ... ~ Harry Truman

They shared a doom against which virtue was no defense ~ Truman Capote