Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.


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JENNIFER TRUMAN
I don't know what happened over the span of the 10-minute halftime. It was like I had put 11 differe...
JENNIFER TRUMAN
The girls just couldn't seem to get past the mud. The mud stopped every shot cold.
JENNIFER TRUMAN
It's been very frustrating having to delay putting the pieces together prior to league because of th...
JENNIFER TRUMAN
It's disappointing on one hand that there may never be a state championship. In our section we get t...
JENNIFER TRUMAN
Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.
HARRY TRUMAN
A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Ser...
HARRY 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