Quotes by Harry S Truman

“The President is always abused. If he isnt, he isnt doing anything.”

“My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating -- and he knows when to stop working.”

“It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked.”

“The best thing about animals is that they dont talk much.”

“If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military”

“The president is the representative of the whole nation and hes the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.”

“carry the battle to them.”

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.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

If you cant convince them, confuse them.

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.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

The Marine Corps is the Navys 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 Stalins.

The reward of suffering is experience.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.