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About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

Harry S. Truman
Mean, Men, Meanness
Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job ... I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below.

Harry S. Truman
Jobs, Eye, Men

No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.

Harry S. Truman
Men, President, Doe

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

Harry S. Truman
People, Trying, President

The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congressand that includes the great majority. I sometimes express it by saying the President is the only lobbyist that one hundred and fifty million Americans have. The other twenty million are able to employ people to represent themand thats all right, its the exercise of the right of petitionbut someone has to look after the interests of the one hundred and fifty million that are left.

Harry S. Truman
Jobs, Exercise, People

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

Harry S. Truman
Patriotic, Men, Years
"The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations".

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

Harry S. Truman
Matter, Deny, Please
"Flags of convenience", www.economist.com. September 11, 2003.

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
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Harry S. Truman
Past, Roots, President
Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.11, New Word City

There's nothing better than cake but more cake.

Harry S. Truman
Cake, Funny Food, Sweet Tooth
Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1998). “Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959”, p.45, University of Missouri Press

Beware of the guy praying loudest in the amen corner.

Harry S. Truman
Guy, Praying, Amen

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

Harry S. Truman
Pages, Judgment, Newspapers
Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

A President cannot always be popular.

Harry S. Truman
President, Popularity
Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.243, New Word City

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

Harry S. Truman
Men, Voice, Presidential
1964 InThisWeek, 5 Apr.

Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

Harry S. Truman
Leader, Reader

I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.

Harry S. Truman
Government, Israel, Presidential

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?

Harry S. Truman
Inspirational, Change, Leadership
"Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman".

Our goal must be not peace in our time, but peace for all time.

Harry S. Truman
Peace, Goal, Tyranny
"The Quotable Harry S. Truman".

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

Harry S. Truman
Integrity, Needs, Code Of Ethics

Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.

Harry S. Truman
War, Order, Law
Radio Report on the Potsdam Conference, delivered 9 August 1945, White House, Washington, D.C.

Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to...] figure out what [the right thing] is.

Harry S. Truman
Easy, Figures, Difficult

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
Funny, Jobs, Humor

Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

Harry S. Truman
Religious, Church, Rooms
Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the enemy, I extend the heartfelt thanks of a grateful Nation. As one of the Nation's finest, you undertook the most severe task one can be called upon to perform. Because you demonstrated the fortitude, resourcefulness and calm judgment necessary to carry out that task, we now look to you for leadership and example to further exalting our country in peace.

Harry S. Truman
Country, Grateful, Heart

I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

Harry S. Truman
Numbers, Mind, Patch Up
Harry S. Truman, Robert J. Donovan (1994). “The Words of Harry S. Truman”