Harry S Truman Quotes

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

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

"The reward of suffering is experience."

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

"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."

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"A President cannot always be popular."

"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."

"Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything."

"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."

"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."

"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."