Authors:

Harry S. Truman Quotes - Page 10

All Quotes Achievement Army Art Atheism Atomic Bomb Attitude Belief Bible Business Change Children Choices Church Country Democracy Destiny Earth Effort Evil Fear Feelings Fighting Freedom Funny Giving God Greatness Hard Work Heart History Home Honor House Inspirational Justice Leadership Liberty Life Lying Military Motivational Office Opportunity Past Peace Police Politics Prejudice Reading Religion Republican Party Responsibility Running Truth Understanding Victory War Welfare Winning Wisdom Work Work Out Worry
Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

Harry S. Truman
President, Riding, Littles

Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.

Harry S. Truman
Engineers, Train
Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Harry S. Truman
Truth, Feelings, Feeling Lost
Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

Harry S. Truman
Country, Dog, Wall
Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

If you can't stand the heat, then move to Minnesota. They have snow in May.

Harry S. Truman
Moving, Snow, Minnesota

I can always get along with an honest friend.

Harry S. Truman
Honesty, Honest, Honest Friends

Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

Harry S. Truman
Regret, Waste, Wasting Time

First of all, it is clear that our efforts in Korea can blunt the will of the Chinese Communists to continue the struggle. The United Nations forces have put up a tremendous fight in Korea and have inflicted very heavy casualties on the enemy. Our forces are stronger now than they have been before. These are plain facts which may discourage the Chinese Communists from continuing their attack.

Harry S. Truman
Struggle, Fighting, Usa
United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

Harry S. Truman
War, Together, Want
United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

The attack upon Korea was an outright breach of the peace and a violation of the Charter of the United Nations. By their actions in Korea, Communist leaders have demonstrated their contempt for the basic moral principles on which the United Nations is founded. This is a direct challenge to the efforts of the free nations to build the kind of world in which men can live in freedom and peace.

Harry S. Truman
Men, Korea, Usa
United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.

Harry S. Truman
Gratitude, Past, People

The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but also a divine command.

Harry S. Truman
Father, Community, Brotherhood

I tend to pair up Benjamin Harrison and Dwight Eisenhower because they're the two presidents I can think of who most preferred laziness to labor.... There's not much else you can say about Harrison except that he was president of the United States.

Harry S. Truman
Thinking, Two, President
Harry S. Truman (2015). “Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman”, p.50, New Word City

No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President.

Harry S. Truman
Family, Responsibility, Understanding
Harry S. Truman (1956). “Years of trial and hope”

I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.

Harry S. Truman
Attitude, Boys, Views
Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.87, New Word City

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

Harry S. Truman
Time, Trying, President
Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.

Harry S. Truman
Organization, People, History

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Harry S. Truman
Patriotic, Fate, Destiny

The absence of war is not peace.

Harry S. Truman
War, Absence

This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.

Harry S. Truman
War, Men, Hands

Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.

Harry S. Truman
Quitting, Knows, Presses
Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.

Harry S. Truman
Lying, Thinking, Answers
1950 On Senator Joseph R McCarthy. Quoted in John Hersey Aspects of the Presidency (1980).

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
Time, Greatness, Class

Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.

Harry S. Truman
Justice, Earth, Submit
United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

Harry S. Truman
Believe, Men, Maturity
Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1949