Harry S Truman Quotes
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I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.
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The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.
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I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.
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Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.
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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.
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We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort. Man has learned long ago, that it is impossible to live unto himself. This same basic principle applies today to nations. We were not isolated during the war. We dare not now become isolated in peace.
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The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.
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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.
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On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.
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If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.
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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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One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.
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All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
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The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.
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Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable...
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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
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Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.
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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.
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We must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic effort. At no time in our history has unity among our people been so vital as it is at the present time. Unity of purpose, unity of effort, and unity of spirit are essential to accomplish the task before us.
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We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for human welfare and happiness, so limitless in their scope; our material prosperity, so far surpassing that of earlier years; and our private spiritual blessings, so deeply cherished by all. For these we offer fervent thanks to God.
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Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!
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He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed.
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I like riding a bicycle built for two--by myself.