Harry S. Truman Quotes

• Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

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• Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

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• How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

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• The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

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• I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

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• Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

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

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

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• A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

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• If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

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• The reward of suffering is experience.

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• The president is the representative of the whole nation and he’s the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in this country have.

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

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• 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.

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• I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

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• You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

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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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