When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.


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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