Harry S Truman Quotes

"Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day."
-Harry S Truman

"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."
-Harry S Truman

"We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected."
-Harry S Truman

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."
-Harry S Truman

"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."
-Harry S Truman in Children quotes.

"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."
-Harry S Truman

"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."
-Harry S Truman

"I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it."
-Harry S Truman in Leadership quotes.

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
-Harry S Truman

"I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell."
-Harry S Truman

"The absence of war is not peace."
-Harry S Truman in War quotes.

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."
-Harry S Truman

"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you."
-Harry S Truman

"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."
-Harry S Truman

"Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny."
-Harry S Truman in Actions quotes.

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
-Harry S Truman

"Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar....He's 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."
-Harry S Truman

"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."
-Harry S Truman

"We can never tell what is in store for us."
-Harry S Truman

"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
-Harry S Truman

"The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know."
-Harry S Truman in History quotes.

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
-Harry S Truman