Harry S. Truman Quotes

• The buck stops here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rights

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Men, Matter, Freedom

• 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

  Topics in America, Fear

  Tags in Mind, Freedom

• 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

  Topics in Advice, Children, Family, Life

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Honesty, Humor, Inspirational, Truth

  Tags in Hell

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

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  Topics in Inspirational
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  If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

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  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Confused, Convince
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  Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Carry, Apologize, Bring

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Decisions, Power

  Tags in Great

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

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  Topics in Decisions, Life

  Tags in Forget

• Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Destiny

• The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Desire

• A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Difficulties

• Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Art, Life

  Tags in Parasitic, Just, Criticism

• Study men, not historians.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Study, Men

• 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

  Topics in America, Fear

  Tags in Courage

• You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always, Situation, Little

• I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wonder, Remember

• When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Honor, Remember

Harry S. Truman (104)

Birth:	8th May, 1884
Death:	26th December, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

About

Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, USA. He was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States from 1945–1953. He served as a United States Senator from Missouri from 1935–45 and briefly as Vice President before he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was studied at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law.

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