Quotes by Harry S. Truman

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet therell be a reckoning. Who knows?

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when youve done the best you can you cant do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.

The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.

Sartor Resartus is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

Once a decision was made I did not worry about it afterward.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity as well as the inalienable right to govern himself with reason and justice.

Any man who has had the job Ive had and didnt have a sense of humor wouldnt still be here.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

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.

The C students run the world.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

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

Well I wouldnt say that I was in the great class but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Harricum! Harricum! Give em hell Harricum!

The buck stops here.

I dont give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.