61 Quotes By Harry S. Truman


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

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S. Truman on art

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.
Harry S. Truman on best

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman on best

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Harry S. Truman on best

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.
Harry S. Truman on change

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.
Harry S. Truman on communication

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.
Harry S. Truman on courage

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. Truman on courage

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman on dad

Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S. Truman on education

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
Harry S. Truman on experience

The reward of suffering is experience.
Harry S. Truman on experience

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman on failure

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. Truman on faith

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.
Harry S. Truman on fear

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. Truman on fear

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.
Harry S. Truman on fear

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S. Truman on freedom

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. Truman on future