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Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
— Harry Truman
May the sun never set on American baseball.
— Harry S. Truman
Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
— Harry S. Truman
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
— Harry S. Truman
France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.
— Harry S. Truman
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
— Harry S. Truman
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.
— Harry S. Truman
And that Perry could not abide: anyone's ridiculing the parrot,
— Truman Capote
It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.
— Harry S. Truman
I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
— Harry S. Truman
If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!
— Harry S. Truman
I can always get along with an honest friend.
— Harry S. Truman
Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.
— Harry S. Truman
Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.
— Harry S. Truman
Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.
— Harry S. Truman
it's fruitcake weather!
— Truman Capote
That's not writing, that's typing.
— Truman Capote
My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
— George Plimpton
What is today?"
"Thursday."
"Thursday." She stood up. "My God," she said, and sat down again with a moan. "It's too gruesome. — Truman Capote
"Thursday."
"Thursday." She stood up. "My God," she said, and sat down again with a moan. "It's too gruesome. — Truman Capote
I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.
— Harry S. Truman
The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.
— Harry S. Truman
The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
— Harry S. Truman
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.
— Harry S. Truman
Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
— Harry S. Truman
A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
— Harry S. Truman
There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.
— Harry S. Truman
Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
— Harry S. Truman
One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.
— Harry S. Truman
When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.
— Harry S. Truman
It sure is hell to be president.
— Harry S. Truman
Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
— Harry S. Truman
A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
— Harry S. Truman
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
— Harry S. Truman
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
— Truman Capote
This Nation was established by men who believed in God ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.
— Harry S. Truman
The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.
— Harry S. Truman
She's such a goddamn liar maybe she don't know herself anymore.
— Truman Capote
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
— Harry S. Truman
Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to ... ] figure out what [the right thing] is.
— Harry S. Truman
We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
— Harry S. Truman
I knew damn well I'd never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you're intelligent, it's too embarrassing.
— Truman Capote
Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
— Harry S. Truman
A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.
— Harry S. Truman
We are trying to prevent a third world war.
— Harry S. Truman
Men make history. History does not make the man.
— Harry S. Truman
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
— Harry S. Truman
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
— Harry S. Truman
Capote's rejoinder to Kerouac's assertion that he never needed to edit his work ... But, that's not writing . That's typing.
— Truman Capote
The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
— Harry S. Truman
It's nice to win.
— Bess Truman
The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.
— Harry S. Truman
I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together
— Margaret Truman
The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.
— Harry S. Truman
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
— Harry S. Truman
Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.
— Harry S. Truman
The buck stops here!
— Harry S. Truman
I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.
— Harry S. Truman
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working.
— Harry S. Truman
Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.
— Harry S. Truman
We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.
— Harry S. Truman
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
— Harry S. Truman
I don't feel qualified to be president either, but I've got the job.
— Harry S. Truman
To me party platforms are contracts with the people.
— Harry S. Truman
Let's don't say another word. let's just go to sleep ...
— Truman Capote
I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.
— Alex Karras
The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.
— Harry S. Truman
Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
— Truman Capote
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.
— Harry Truman
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
— Harry S. Truman
To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
— Harry S. Truman
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
— Harry S. Truman
Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.
— 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
Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.
— Harry S. Truman
When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.
— Harry S. Truman
I like riding a bicycle built for two
by myself. — Harry S. Truman
by myself. — Harry S. Truman
We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
— Harry S. Truman
Oh, he's not my idea of the absolute finito.
— Truman Capote
Study men, not historians.
— Harry S. Truman
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
— Harry S. Truman
In the long view, no nation is any healthier than its children.
— Harry S. Truman
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
— Harry S. Truman
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
— Harry S. Truman
Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!
— Harry S. Truman
Speaking out as he had never before done in Congress, Lyndon Johnson in 1947 opposed most of Truman's Fair Deal.
— Robert A. Caro
I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, Don't Worry Me
I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay. — Harry S. Truman
I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay. — Harry S. Truman
If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em.
— Harry S. Truman
I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.
— Harry S. Truman
An expert is someone who doesn't want to learn anything new, because then he would not be an expert
— Harry S. Truman