Author

Harry S. Truman

41 quotes Popular first.

1 0
“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
1 0
“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”— Harry S. Truman
1 0
“I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”— Harry S. Truman
1 0
“All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.”— Harry S. Truman
1 0
“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
1 0
“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
1 0
“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
1 0
“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
1 0
“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.”— Harry S. Truman
1 0
“Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.”— Harry S. Truman
1 0
“Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.”— Harry S. Truman
1 0
“The reward of suffering is experience.”— Harry S. Truman
1 0
“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying b-----d. 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
1 0
“Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.”— Harry S. Truman
1 0
“A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.”— Harry S. Truman
1 0
“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