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“The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount...If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.
— Harry S. Truman
U.S. President
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Photo: Pierre Blaché · CC0 · source · Portrait: National Archives and Records Administration. Office of Presidential Libraries. Harry S. Truman Library. (Public domain)
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