Harry S. Truman

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

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

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

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.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Study men, not historians.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

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

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

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.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

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.

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