Harry S. Truman Quotes

• You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

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• 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.

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• In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

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• Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

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• Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

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• 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.

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• It sure is hell to be president.

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• The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

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• If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

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• The White House is the finest prison in the world.

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• ‘Sartor Resartus’ is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

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• The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

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• I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you’ve done the best you can, you can’t do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.

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• Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

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• 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.

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• Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

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• Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

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• A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

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

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• Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

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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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