Harry S Truman Quotes
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I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.
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If you can't stand the heat, then move to Minnesota. They have snow in May.
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My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working.
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Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.
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It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.
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It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.
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I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.
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This minimum wage legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.
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I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.
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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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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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It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you to get along in the republic of the United States. Now, if Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over a watershed they don't call out the national guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring suit in the Supreme Court and abide by its decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we can't do that internationally.
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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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It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.
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Our goal must be not peace in our time, but peace for all time.
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The White House is the finest prison in the world.
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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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This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.
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A President cannot always be popular.
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A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
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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.
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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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If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
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We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others...