Harry S. Truman Quotes

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Inspirational

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Difficulties

• Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Worry

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Far

• 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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Role Models, Woman, Great

• 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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Ability

  Tags in One Day, Better, Forget

• 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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in The Presidency, Like, Few, Man

• 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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Country

  Tags in The Presidency, People

• Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

  Harry S. Truman

  Tags in Government and Rule

• Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lies

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always, Spoils

• 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

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friend

• 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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Men, Matter, Freedom

• 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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proper, Facts, Judgement

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worst, Impossible

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Supreme, Friend, Man

• Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fellow, Against

• When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

  Harry S. Truman

  Tags in Government

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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