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Harry S Truman Quotes | Quotes said by Harry S Truman

  • Harry S Truman Quote #1

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


  • Harry S Truman Quote #2

    A President cannot always be popular.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #3

    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.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #4

    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 Quote #5

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

  • Harry S Truman Quote #6

    Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #7

    Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #8

    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.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #9

    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.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #10

    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.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #11

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

  • Harry S Truman Quote #12

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

  • Harry S Truman Quote #13

    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 Quote #14

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

  • Harry S Truman Quote #15

    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 Quote #16

    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 Quote #17

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

  • Harry S Truman Quote #18

    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.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #19

    Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...

  • Harry S Truman Quote #20

    Politics sure is the ruination of many a good man.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #21

    Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #22

    The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #23

    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 Quote #24

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

  • Harry S Truman Quote #25

    The reward of suffering is experience.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #26

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

  • Harry S Truman Quote #27

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

  • Harry S Truman Quote #28

    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.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #29

    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.

  • Harry S Truman Quote #30

    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.

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