Top 100 Quotes About Harry S Truman
#1. On the one hand X is true, but on the other hand, Y is true," Harry S. Truman is reported to have muttered in frustration, "Get me a one-armed economist!
Hal Herzog
#2. Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
A. Whitney Brown
#3. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." Harry S. Truman
Shar McBee
#4. Harry S. Truman, in his typical no-nonsense style, once said that 'An expert is someone who doesn't want to learn anything new, because then he would not be an expert.' Expert knowledge is absolutely necessary, but
Ha-Joon Chang
#5. President Harry S. Truman is said to have famously asked for a one-handed economist, noting that "all my economists say, on the one hand and on the other.
Greg Ip
#6. Hi Allan, it's Harry'
'Which Harry?'
'Truman, Allan. Harry S. Truman, the president, damn it!'
'How nice! That was a good meal we had Mr President, thank you. I hope you weren't required to fly the plane home?
Jonas Jonasson
#8. All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.
Harry S. Truman
#9. You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.
Harry S. Truman
#10. The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.
Harry S. Truman
#11. We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.
Harry S. Truman
#12. 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
#14. Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
Harry S. Truman
#16. In the long view, no nation is any healthier than its children.
Harry S. Truman
#17. Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S. Truman
#18. Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ... its the doing of it that gives them trouble
Harry S. Truman
#19. Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies-hunger, misery, and despair.
Harry S. Truman
#20. There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it ... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.
Harry S. Truman
#21. The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.
Harry S. Truman
#22. Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.
Harry S. Truman
#23. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman
#24. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.
Harry S. Truman
#25. Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.
Harry S. Truman
#26. To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
Harry S. Truman
#27. Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima ... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
Harry S. Truman
#28. I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the point
Harry S. Truman
#29. Unless Russia is face with an iron fist and strong language, another is in the making. Only one language do they understand - 'How many divisions have you?' ... I'm tired of babying the Soviets.
Harry S. Truman
#30. We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.
Harry S. Truman
#31. If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself ... self-d iscipline.
Harry S. Truman
#32. Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'.
Harry S. Truman
#33. 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
#34. Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.
Harry S. Truman
#36. Canadian-American relations for many years did not develop spontaneously. The example of accord provided by our two countries did not come about merely through the happy circumstance of geography. It is compounded of one part proximity and nine parts good will and common sense.
Harry S. Truman
#37. The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.
Harry S. Truman
#38. Some day we'll awake, have a reformation of the heart, teach our kids honor and kill a few sex psychologists, put boys in high schools with men teachers (not sissies), close all the girls' finishing schools, shoot all the effeciency experts and become a nation of God's people once more.
Harry S. Truman
#39. Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
Harry S. Truman
#40. The record proves that in peaceful commerce the combined efforts of our countries can produce outstanding results. Our trade with each other is far greater than that of any other two nations on earth.
Harry S. Truman
#41. The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.
Harry S. Truman
#44. The America to which these Swedish settlers came was a land that needed the hardy qualities they brought. It was not a land that was particularly softhearted towards newcomers, but everyone believed that each should have a fair chance regardless of his origin.
Harry S. Truman
#45. Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.
Harry S. Truman
#46. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.
Harry S. Truman
#47. A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
Harry S. Truman
#49. 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.
Harry S. Truman
#50. It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts
Harry S. Truman
#51. The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but also a divine command.
Harry S. Truman
#52. Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.
Harry S. Truman
#53. Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
Harry S. Truman
#54. We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.
Harry S. Truman
#55. As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed. It hasn't. It's you who has changed.
Harry S. Truman
#56. The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
Harry S. Truman
#57. 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
#59. If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.
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#62. Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.
Harry S. Truman
#63. If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.
Harry S. Truman
#64. Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
Harry S. Truman
#65. My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
Harry Truman
#66. All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.
Harry S. Truman
#67. Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.
Harry S. Truman
#68. An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.
Harry S. Truman
#69. I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.
Harry S. Truman
#70. If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.
Harry S. Truman
#71. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.
Harry S. Truman
#72. If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.
Harry S. Truman
#73. Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.
Bess Truman
#74. There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.
Harry S. Truman
#75. Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.
Harry S. Truman
#77. 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 Truman
#78. Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.
Harry S. Truman
#80. [I am] just a common everyday man whose instincts are to be ornery, who's anxious to be right.
Harry Truman
#81. But all of us-at home, at war, wherever we may be-are within the reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will.
Harry S. Truman
#82. Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.
Harry S. Truman
#83. Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
Harry S. Truman
#84. Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.
Harry S. Truman
#86. I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Harry S. Truman
#87. I don't feel qualified to be president either, but I've got the job.
Harry S. Truman
#88. This Nation was established by men who believed in God ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.
Harry S. Truman
#89. When we refused to be forced out of Berlin, we demonstrated to the people of Europe that with their cooperation we would act, and act resolutely, when their freedom was threatened.
Harry S. Truman
#90. Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory ... : 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.
E.L. Doctorow
#91. A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.
Harry S. Truman
#93. I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.
Harry S. Truman
#94. Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S. Truman
#95. I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'.
Harry S. Truman
#96. There's nothing better than cake but more cake.
Harry Truman
#98. A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S. Truman
#99. Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.
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#100. When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
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