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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.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Harry S Truman

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Harry S Truman

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Harry S Truman

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Harry S Truman

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Harry S Truman

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Harry S Truman

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Harry S Truman

It sure is hell to be president.

Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

Harry S Truman

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Harry S Truman

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Harry S Truman

A President cannot always be popular.

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Harry S Truman

The buck stops here!

Harry S Truman

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Harry S Truman

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

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.

Harry S Truman

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Harry S Truman

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Harry S Truman

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

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