Harry Truman Quotes

Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The union of our arms in

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was still a windbag

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

Politics sure is the ruination of many a good man.

The bulk of the uranium available to

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.

Within the first few months I discovered that being President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed.

worked, the bomb, in all probability, would shorten

You know when people can get excited over the ordinary things in life, they live

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

There's nothing better than cake but more cake.

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

I won't sell influence and I'm perfectly willing to be cussed if I'm right.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt?

The 'C' students run the world.

Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

I fired MacArthur because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was.

Believe and you're halfway there.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

A President cannot always be popular.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

everything I've read about his death indicates that he died peacefully, and perhaps he died because he'd accomplished his purpose. He

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

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

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

[I am] just a common everyday man whose instincts are to be ornery, who's anxious to be right.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

large numbers of reporters and

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

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 only thing that's really new is the history you don't know.

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.

If you can't dance then you are a loser.

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.

I shall continue to do what I think is right, whether anybody likes it or not.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage
the more the minimum, the better.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.

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