Harry S. Truman Quotes

If you can't stand the heat, then move to Minnesota. They have snow in May.

On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.

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.

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

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

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

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

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

This is a Christian nation.

The 'C' students run the world.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record.

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.

Study men, not historians.

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

The absence of war is not peace.

The stress stops here

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

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

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

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

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.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.

It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.

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!

(The AMA is) "just another mean trust."

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.

I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.