1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA
If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.
Harry S. Truman – [Elections]
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry S. Truman – [Truth]
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 – [Peace]
It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
Harry S. Truman – [Politicians and Politics]
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
Harry S. Truman – [Depression]
Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
Harry S. Truman – [President]
Study men, not historians.
Harry S. Truman – [History and Historians]
The atom bomb was no ''great decision.'' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S. Truman – [Nuclear Age]
The buck stops here.
Harry S. Truman – [Money]
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 – [Masses]
The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
Harry S. Truman – [President]
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S. Truman – [United Nations]
We must build a new world, a far better world — one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
Harry S. Truman – [New World]
We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
Harry S. Truman – [Truth]
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Harry S. Truman – [Communication]
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
Harry S. Truman – [Greatness]
When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
Harry S. Truman – [Voting]
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman – [Politicians and Politics]
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 – [President]
Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
Harry S. Truman – [Attitude]
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