Quotes from Harry S. Truman

How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.

The stress stops here

When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time

For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.

I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.

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.

Nixon is 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.

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

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!

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.

All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.