Quotes by Harry S Truman

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, hed lie just to keep his hand in.

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.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

A President cannot always be popular.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

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.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician whos been dead for 15 years.

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.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellows viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.