Quotes from Harry S. Truman

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.

All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with — and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.

On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

I shall continue to do what I think is right, whether anybody likes it or not.

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.

If you can read this thank a teacher.

I'm just a politician from Missouri and proud of it.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.

A President cannot always be popular.

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt?

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

The bulk of the uranium available to

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

Socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made.

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

I would rather be a Medal of Honor recipient then the President of the United States!