Harry S. Truman Quotes
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
Harry S. Truman
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
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.
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Any denial of human rights is a denial of the basic beliefs of democracy.
If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline.
If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Harry S. Truman
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
The absence of war is not peace.
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
Study men, not historians.
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
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.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
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.
The buck stops here!
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
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.