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Harry S. Truman Quotes

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
The reward of suffering is experience.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
In 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.
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
In 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.
Study men, not historians.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.