Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

The reward of suffering is experience.

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

A President cannot always be popular.

Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman

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.