Quotes from Harry Truman

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...

Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

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

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

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.

Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

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

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

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.

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you'll do your best thinking that way. And that's why I've always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don't go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.