Harry S Truman Quotes
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Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble...
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Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.
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Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.
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The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congressand that includes the great majority. I sometimes express it by saying the President is the only lobbyist that one hundred and fifty million Americans have. The other twenty million are able to employ people to represent themand thats all right, its the exercise of the right of petitionbut someone has to look after the interests of the one hundred and fifty million that are left.
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Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
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No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.
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A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
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This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.
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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.
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It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.
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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.
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Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
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The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record.
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Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.
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There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.
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There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.
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I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
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I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
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The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us.
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Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.
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In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.
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The guilty as well as the innocent are entitled to due process of law. They are entitled to a fair trial. They are entitled to counsel. They are entitled to fair treatment from the police. The law enforcement officer has the same duty as the citizen-indeed, he has a higher duty-to abide by the letter and spirit of our Constitution and laws. You yourselves must be careful to obey the letter of the law. You yourselves must be intellectually honest in the enforcement of the law.
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Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.
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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...