Harry S Truman Quotes
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Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
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Doing the right thing is easy. It is much more difficult to... figure out what the right thing is.
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For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.
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I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.
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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.
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We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
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Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
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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.
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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.
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For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations.
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The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.
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There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.
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Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
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In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.
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Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.
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I tend to pair up Benjamin Harrison and Dwight Eisenhower because they're the two presidents I can think of who most preferred laziness to labor.... There's not much else you can say about Harrison except that he was president of the United States.
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I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle. And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb. But when history says that my term of office saw the begining of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it.
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I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.
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Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
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This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
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The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.
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Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as foreign countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.