Harry S. Truman Quotes
(his journal entry after visiting Berlin shortly after VE Day.) Never have I seen such a sorrowful sight. I hope for a swift end to this war but I fear that the machines are ahead of morals by some centuries.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
A president cannot always be popular.
Always be sincere, even if you don`t mean it.
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, he`d lie just to keep his hand in.
I don`t want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.
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.
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.
Carry the battle to them. Don`t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don`t ever apologize for anything.
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.
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.
It`s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it`s a depression when you lose yours.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Carry the battle to them. Don`t let them bring it to you.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
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.
