Famous Quotes / Harry S. Truman
75 Quotations by Harry S. Truman
- 41. Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
- 42. My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell ...
- 43. My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
- 44. Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward.
- 45. One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward inste ...
- 46. Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same tim ...
- 47. Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of ...
- 48. Study men, not historians.
- 49. That precedent should continue-not by a Constitutional amendment but by custom based on the honor of ...
- 50. The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of right ...
- 51. The buck stops here.
- 52. The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and actio ...
- 53. The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remai ...
- 54. The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one ...
- 55. The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members ...
- 56. Therefore to re-establish that custom, although by a quibble I could say I've only had one term, I a ...
- 57. We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.
- 58. We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respecte ...
- 59. We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
- 60. We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication i ...