«Harry S Truman»

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

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

Harry S Truman

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

Harry S Truman

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

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.

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

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

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Harry S Truman

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Harry S Truman

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Harry S Truman

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

Harry S Truman

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

Study men, not historians.

Harry S Truman

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

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

Harry S Truman

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

The reward of suffering is experience.

Harry S Truman

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.

Harry S Truman

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Harry S Truman

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

Harry S Truman

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

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