Harry S Truman Quotes:- Harry S Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States (1945–1953), succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as vice president. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO. Truman was elected as a U.S. senator in 1934 and gained national prominence as chairman of the Truman Committee aimed at waste and inefficiency in wartime contracts.
Soon after succeeding in the presidency he became the only world leader to have used nuclear weapons in war. Truman’s administration engaged in an internationalist foreign policy and renounced isolationism. He rallied his New Deal coalition during the 1948 presidential election and won a surprise victory that secured his own presidential term.
Inspirational Harry S Truman Quotes
“A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.”-Harry S Truman
“A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.”-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
“A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.”-Harry S Truman
“A President cannot always be popular.”-Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman Quotes Moment
“A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.”-Harry S Truman
“A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.”-Harry S Truman
“Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.”-Harry S Truman
“All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.”-Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman Quotes President
“All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.”-Harry S Truman
“Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean 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
“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
“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”-Harry S Truman
“Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.”-Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman Quotes Battle
“Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.”-Harry S Truman
“Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.”-Harry S Truman
“I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.”-Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman Quotes Faith
“I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.”-Harry S Truman
“I have found 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
“I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.”-Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman Quotes Truth
“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”-Harry S Truman
“I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”-Harry S Truman
“I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.”-Harry S Truman
“I would rather have peace in the world than be President.”-Harry S Truman
“If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.”-Harry S Truman
“If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.”-Harry S Truman
“If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”-Harry S Truman
“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”-Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman Quotes Enough
“In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.”-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
“Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.”-Harry S Truman
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”-Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman Quotes Understanding
“It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.”-Harry S Truman
“It sure is hell to be president.”-Harry S Truman
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.”-Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman Quotes Face
“It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.”-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
Harry S Truman Quotes Problem
“Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.”-Harry S Truman
“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.”-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
Harry S Truman Quotes Lying
“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.”-Harry S Truman
“Study men, not historians.”-Harry S Truman
“The atom bomb was no ‘great decision.’ It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.”-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
“The buck stops here!”-Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman Quotes Direction
“The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.”-Harry S Truman
“The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.”-Harry S Truman
“The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.”-Harry S Truman
“The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.”-Harry S Truman
“The reward of suffering is an experience.”-Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman Quotes Independence
“The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.”-Harry S Truman
“The White House is the finest prison in the world.”-Harry S Truman
“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”-Harry S Truman
“This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.”-Harry S Truman
“Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.”-Harry S Truman
“Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in a great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.”-Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman Quotes government
“When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.”-Harry S Truman
“Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.”-Harry S Truman
“Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.”-Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman Quotes Parents
“You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.”-Harry S Truman
“You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.”-Harry S Truman
