Quotes By Harry S. Truman

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

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.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

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

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.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Study men, not historians.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

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