“I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.”
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Speech to a joint session of the US Congress (12 March 1947), outlining what became known as The Truman Doctrine
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