Harry S. Truman Quotes
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Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
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We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as Canada and the United States have lived for generations.
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All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
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I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.
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It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.
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It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.
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No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.
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All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.
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Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
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If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.
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Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.
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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.
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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.
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Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
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There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
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Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
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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.
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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
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When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
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I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.
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If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
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When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
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Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.
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There's nothing better than cake but more cake.
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Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.
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You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.
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Harry S. Truman
- Born: May 8, 1884
- Died: December 26, 1972
- Occupation: 33rd U.S. President
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