Harry S. Truman quotes

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. (Harry S. Truman)
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Harry S. Truman
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. Truman
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. Truman
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.
Harry S. Truman
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S. Truman
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Harry S. Truman
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. (Harry S. Truman)
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Harry S. Truman
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S. Truman
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Harry S. Truman
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Harry S. Truman
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
Harry S. Truman
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
Harry S. Truman
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S. Truman
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
Harry S. Truman
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
Harry S. Truman
It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another in either an election or horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish line that counts. (Harry S. Truman)
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.
Harry S. Truman
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S. Truman
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S. Truman
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
Harry S. Truman