Harry S Truman quote: "When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating."

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

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

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

When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.

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Harry S Truman

When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.

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