Words matter. These are the best Harry S Truman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
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!
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.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
The buck stops here!
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.
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.
A President cannot always be popular.
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.
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.
It sure is hell to be president.
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.
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
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.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
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.
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
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.
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.
In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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.
The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.
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.
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.
If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.
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.
