Harry S Truman quotes

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

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

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

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

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 would rather have peace in the world than be President.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 determination to do the job at hand.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A President cannot always be popular.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.