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It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
By Harry S Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job it's a depression when you lose yours.
By Harry S Truman
It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
By Harry S Truman
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.
By Harry S Truman
If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
By Harry S Truman
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
By Harry S Truman
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
By Harry S Truman
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
By Harry S Truman
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
By Harry S Truman
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better.
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 - 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.
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
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.
By Harry S Truman
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.
By Harry S Truman
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.
By Harry S Truman
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
By Harry S Truman
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
By 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.
By Harry S Truman
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
By Harry S Truman
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
By 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.
By 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.
By 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.
By Harry S Truman