Harry S. Truman Quotes

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity as well as th...

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

Well I wouldn't say that I was in the 'great' class but I had a great time while I was trying to b...

The "C" students run the world.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication i...

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, a...

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... se...

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one ...

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

A President cannot always be popular.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close h...

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of right...

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afr...

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15...

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's vi...

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

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remai...

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

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stan...

The reward of suffering is experience.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determ...

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members...

The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what th...

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell Harricum!

I studied the lives of great men and famous women and I found that the men and women who got to the...

I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same tim...

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if...

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a...

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to...

The buck stops here.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's vi...

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registerin...

'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

Once a decision was made I did not worry about it afterward.

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

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belie...

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of m...