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Harry S. Truman
American
President
About the author
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Want
#Children
#Advice
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Life
#Art
#Criticism
A President cannot always be popular.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Popular
#President
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,
American
President
#Man
#Sense
#Job
#Humor
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Fear
#Imagination
#Job
#America
#Determination
#Courage
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Time
#Life
#Forget
#Decision
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#May
#President
#Needs
#Government
#Understanding
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Will
#President
#Events
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Wonder
#Hell
#First
#Washington
#Rest
#Months
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#World
#President
#Peace
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Time
#People
#Public
#President
#Man
#Kissing
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Time
#Trying
#Class
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Thought
#Hell
#Truth
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Worth
#Learning
The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#President
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Freedom
#Independence
#Nations
#United
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Nothing
#World
#History
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Years
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Want
#Being
#Government
#Men
#Spirit
#Mind
#Suicide
#Assassination
To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Will
#Hell
#History
#Sons
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Thought
#Books
#Education
#Race
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Action
#Right
#People
#Will
#Thought
#Race
#Direction
#Nationality
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Fear
#War
#Open
#Suspicion
#Communication
#Potential
#Causes
The buck stops here!
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Nothing
#Fear
#American
#Wrong
#Mind
#Americans
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#President
#Presidency
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Government
#Dictatorship
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Vote
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Man
#Friend
#Court
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Necessity
#Nixon
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Now
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Facts
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Being
#American
#Belief
#Men
#Parents
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Want
#Friend
#Washington
Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Forget
#First
#Washington
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Job
#Depression
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Time
#Committee
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,
American
President
#President
#states
#United
If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Kitchen
In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Years
#President
#Man
#Opinion
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#First
#Men
#Reading
#Self
#Victory
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Feeling
#Truth
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Care
#Credit
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Will
#President
#Police
#Force
#Navy
#Machine
#Propaganda
It sure is hell to be president.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#President
#Hell
The reward of suffering is experience.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Experience
#Suffering
#Reward
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,
American
President
#Time
#Work
#Old
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Men
#Society
#History
#Opportunity
#Change
#Progress
#Leadership
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Problems
#Past
#President
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,
American
President
#Battle
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#War
#Experience
#Rivalry
#Injustice
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Teaching
#World
#Today
#Country
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Now
#Israel
#Civilization
#Faith
#Future
#Nation
#Ideals
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Thought
#Hell
#Truth
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Eating
#Country
#Desire
#Turkey
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Being
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Actions
#Destiny
#Fate
#Deeds
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Years
#Man
#Government
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Life
#Truth
#Choice
#Difference
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#President
#Failure
#states
#United
#Father
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Time
#Country
#History
#Talking
#Office
#Lying
#Nixon
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Time
#Truth
#Lie
#Lying
#Nixon
Study men, not historians.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Study
#Men
#Historians
The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Decision
#Righteousness
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Want
#Children
#Advice
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.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Work
#Ability
#Peace
#Understanding
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Boss
#Republican
#Party
#Leader
A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Republican
#Office
The White House is the finest prison in the world.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#World
#Prison
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S. Truman,
American
President
#Difficulties