Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.


Harry S Truman

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr...
THE CHILDREN
I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b...
THE CHILDREN
Mr. Gore, I knew Harry Truman, ... I ran against Harry Truman. And Mr. Gore, you are no Harry Truman...
STROM THURMOND
If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN
Walking with Daisy from the dining hall, Matthew murmured, “Will I have to scale the outside wall ...
LISA KLEYPAS
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL
I understand why Wall Street is responding as violent as they are, because this was the darling of W...
GARY FRAZIER
I understand why Wall Street is responding as violent as they are, because this was the darling of W...
GARY FRAZIER
I understand why Wall Street is responding as violent as they are because this was the darling of Wa...
GARY FRAZIER
Harry S Truman despised settled conventions.
DAVID PIETRUSZA
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then adv...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
RON CHERNOW
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in t...
WILLIAM VICKREY
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib...
ROALD DAHL
Is There Anybody Out There?
PINK FLOYD
Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman... I met Harry Truman... But you know what I mean? No...
JOAN RIVERS
And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD
It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH
Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH
Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH
Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH
As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things
WALT DISNEY COMPANY
When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me...
GARY F EVANS...
I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.
L.J. SMITH
And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON
I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
CANDACE BUSHNELL
Greatness consists in deciding only what is necessary for the welfare of the country and making stra...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK
The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH
We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never all...
JOHN KERRY
In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Harry dreamed he was back in the DA room. Cho was accusing him of luring her there under false prete...
J.K. ROWLING
Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters,' said Sirius with a wry smile.
J.K. ROWLING
Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?'

'Yes,' said Harry.

'You ca...
J.K. ROWLING
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is r...
RICK SANTORUM
Adults are only children with a few more years on top.
CJ HECK
Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY
When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY
I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!
SEX AND THE CITY
I love you, but I love myself more.
SEX AND THE CITY
Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
SEX AND THE CITY
Desperate Housewives.
SEX AND THE CITY
Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca...
SEX AND THE CITY
I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria]
SEX AND THE CITY
I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ...
SEX AND THE CITY
I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY
the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.
SEX AND THE CITY
A stud is born! [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY
Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey]
SEX AND THE CITY
My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou...
SEX AND THE CITY
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story.
SEX AND THE CITY
No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave.
SEX AND THE CITY
I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY
My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
the lights fade to black.
SEX AND THE CITY
Yeah, I would love to. I don't know if I'd do another singing one.
SEX AND THE CITY
Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!"
SEX AND THE CITY
F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me.
SEX AND THE CITY
Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni a...
SEX AND THE CITY
I knew I wanted a handbag, but they were so pricey. I love Marc Jacobs.
SEX AND THE CITY
All other documents in the Getty's possession that could in any way be relevant to the Italian inves...
SEX AND THE CITY
'Rome' vital to HBO TV empire.
SEX AND THE CITY
Sex and the City.
SEX AND THE CITY
Suicide is not glamorous and should not be portrayed in a glamorous light.
SEX AND THE CITY
When an opportunity comes, I don't question it. I grab it, drop its ring on the nightstand and swing...
SEX AND THE CITY
Having money isn't the answer but it makes your life a hell of a lot nicer. If you have the choice t...
SEX AND THE CITY

More Harry S Truman

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
HARRY S TRUMAN
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S TRUMAN
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN
The buck stops here!
HARRY S TRUMAN
Ive said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representativ...
HARRY S TRUMAN
People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.
HARRY S TRUMAN
They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation....
HARRY S TRUMAN
I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a ...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The Buck Stops Here
HARRY S TRUMAN
Shortly after I was elected, in Nineteen Hundred and Forty-eight, I made up my mind that I would not...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they thr...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special repre...
HARRY S TRUMAN
When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here,...
HARRY S TRUMAN
You know, the greatest epitaph in the country is here in Arizona. Its in Tombstone, Ariz. , and this...
HARRY S TRUMAN
There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the Presiden...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Im proud that Im a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a poli...
HARRY S TRUMAN
On May 14 I was informed that the Provisional Government of Israel was planning to proclaim a Jewish...
HARRY S TRUMAN
A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cann...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
Start slow and taper off.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
That government is best which governs least.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a po...
HARRY S. TRUMAN
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's v...
HARRY S. TRUMAN
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the su...
HARRY S. TRUMAN
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
HARRY S TRUMAN
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...sel...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
HARRY S TRUMAN
But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a...
HARRY S. TRUMAN
The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteo...
HARRY S TRUMAN
How do you live a long life? Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
HARRY S TRUMAN
If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!
HARRY S TRUMAN
Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to k...
HARRY S TRUMAN
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is ...
HARRY S TRUMAN
A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A st...
HARRY S TRUMAN
It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen y...
HARRY S TRUMAN
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
HARRY S TRUMAN
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
HARRY S TRUMAN
The buck stops here.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of ...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one ...
HARRY S TRUMAN
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, al...
HARRY S TRUMAN
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, a...
HARRY S TRUMAN
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
HARRY S TRUMAN
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's vi...
HARRY S TRUMAN
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of...
HARRY S TRUMAN
We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S TRUMAN
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication i...
HARRY S TRUMAN
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
HARRY S TRUMAN
We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respecte...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be ...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Study men, not historians.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and actio...
HARRY S TRUMAN
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
HARRY S TRUMAN
It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
It...
HARRY S TRUMAN
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S TRUMAN
If you can't convince them; confuse them.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representati...
HARRY S. TRUMAN
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication i...
HARRY S. TRUMAN
I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the...
HARRY S TRUMAN
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then adv...
HARRY S TRUMAN
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close h...
HARRY S TRUMAN
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determ...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to d...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The reward of suffering is experience.
HARRY S TRUMAN
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo...
HARRY S TRUMAN
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
HARRY S TRUMAN
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... se...
HARRY S TRUMAN
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
HARRY S TRUMAN
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
HARRY S TRUMAN
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cann...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S TRUMAN
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
HARRY S TRUMAN
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal ...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afr...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stan...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don'...
HARRY S TRUMAN
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in littl...
HARRY S TRUMAN
When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
The Buck Stops Here.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
The White House is the finest prison in the world.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We s...
HARRY S TRUMAN
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
HARRY S TRUMAN
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belie...
HARRY S TRUMAN
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar....He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society sta...
HARRY S TRUMAN
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
HARRY S TRUMAN
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
HARRY S TRUMAN
We can never tell what is in store for us.
HARRY S TRUMAN
How do you live a long life? "Take a two- mile walk every morning before breakfast."
HARRY S. TRUMAN
Whenever the press quits abusing me I know I'm in the wrong pew. I don't mind it because when they t...
HARRY S TRUMAN
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
HARRY S TRUMAN
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing an...
HARRY S TRUMAN
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only on...
HARRY S TRUMAN
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
HARRY S TRUMAN
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't...
HARRY S TRUMAN
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jac...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever ...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then adv...
HARRY S TRUMAN
If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.
HARRY S TRUMAN
When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S TRUMAN
It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
HARRY S TRUMAN
carry the battle to them.
HARRY S TRUMAN
It sure is hell to be president.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Men make history and not the other way around.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I was the only calm one in the house. You see I've been shot at by experts.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be gre...
HARRY S TRUMAN
I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up
HARRY S TRUMAN
If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
HARRY S TRUMAN
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The best way to give advise to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to d...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Why, this fellow don't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.
HARRY S TRUMAN
To me party platforms are contracts with the people
HARRY S TRUMAN
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15...
HARRY S TRUMAN
We're going to be buried out here. I like the idea because I may just want to get up some day and st...
HARRY S TRUMAN
It is terrible-and I mean terrible-nuisance to be kin to the president of the United States.
HARRY S TRUMAN
This is the day we have been waiting for since Pearl Harbor. This is the day when Fascism finally di...
HARRY S TRUMAN
When you've done the best you can, you can't do any better
HARRY S TRUMAN
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members
HARRY S TRUMAN
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustic...
HARRY S TRUMAN
If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military
HARRY S TRUMAN
The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know
HARRY S TRUMAN
The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of m...
HARRY S TRUMAN
He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to ru...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan I know he's going to vote against me
HARRY S TRUMAN
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registerin...
HARRY S TRUMAN
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
HARRY S TRUMAN
The White House is the finest prison in the world.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious futur...
HARRY S TRUMAN
To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.
HARRY S TRUMAN
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little pl...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remai...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Tita...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Do you know why they call it 'PMS'? Because 'Mad Cow Disease' was already taken.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back
HARRY S TRUMAN
There Are Three Kinds of People - Those Who Can Count and Those Who Can't
HARRY S TRUMAN
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure
HARRY S TRUMAN
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will r...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both si...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The atom bomb was no ''great decision.'' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of rig...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Our conference in 1945 did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations. [We] se...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Don't hate yourself in the morning. Sleep till noon.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I have read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an eig...
HARRY S TRUMAN
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
HARRY S TRUMAN
The 'C' students run the world.
HARRY S TRUMAN
When a leader is in the Democratic party he's a boss; when he's in the Republican party he's a leade...
HARRY S TRUMAN
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating -...
HARRY S TRUMAN
People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo
HARRY S TRUMAN
I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a s...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one
HARRY S TRUMAN
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same tim...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
HARRY S TRUMAN
That precedent should continue-not by a Constitutional amendment but by custom based on the honor of...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Start slow and taper off.
HARRY S TRUMAN
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determin...
HARRY S TRUMAN
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representati...
HARRY S TRUMAN
If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog
HARRY S TRUMAN
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
HARRY S TRUMAN
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it
HARRY S TRUMAN
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever a...
HARRY S TRUMAN
If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't...
HARRY S TRUMAN
I don't want it torn down. I think it's the greatest monstrosity in America.
HARRY S TRUMAN
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a ...
HARRY S TRUMAN