A collection of quotes and thoughts by Harry S. Truman on leadership, courage, fear, history, change, patriotism, atomic, bomb, love, accomplish, communism and democrats.
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Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of America who took over the presidency after sudden and sad demise of the then President Franklin D.Roosevelt. He administered the end of World War II and is infamous for validating the use of nuclear weapons against Japan. Truman never went to college. After he graduated from high school, he tried his hands on several jobs before joining the military duty voluntarily for World War I. His bravery and valor that earned admiration, respect and the post of the captain. The Presidency of Truman was marked by the onset of Cold War. Once he accomplished his second term he went back to his native place and spent the rest of his life there. Following are some famous words, thoughts and views that the notorious politician shared through his speeches, life and works. Read through the thoughts, sayings and opinions by Harry S. Truman which are till date used as quotable quotes.
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman
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.
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Harry S. Truman
If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
Harry S. Truman
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.
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
The Marine Corps is the Navy's 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 Stalin's.
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.
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
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.
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.
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S. Truman
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
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.
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S. Truman
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
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.
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
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.
