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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
By Harry S Truman
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.
By Harry S Truman
It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
By Harry S Truman
A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
By Harry S Truman
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.
By 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.
By 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.
By Harry S Truman
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
By Harry S Truman
We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
By 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.
By Harry S Truman
Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
By Harry S Truman
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.
By 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.
By Harry S Truman
Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
By Harry S Truman
Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
By 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.
By 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.
By Harry S Truman