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All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.

All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.

Harry S. Truman
Order, Fields, Neighbor
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”

In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores.

Harry S. Truman
Strong, Fall, Communist Leaders

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Harry S. Truman
Years, Political, Politics

Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies-hunger, misery, and despair.

Harry S. Truman
Enemy, Democracy, Despair
Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1949

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

Harry S. Truman
Honesty, Men, Public Opinion
Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.310, University of Missouri Press

They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.

Harry S. Truman
War, Fighting, Winning
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”

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Harry S. Truman
Art, Artist, Ifs

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

Harry S. Truman
War, Want, Misery
The Truman Doctrine, delivered 12 March 1947 before a Joint Session of Congress

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

Harry S. Truman
Character, Men, Fundamentals
"Mr. Citizen".

Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.

Harry S. Truman
Life, Strength, Peace
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”

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.

Harry S. Truman
Presidential, Degrees, Sides
Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2003). “Miracle of Forty-eight”, p.65, SIU Press

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

Harry S. Truman
Education, Book, Reading

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

Harry S. Truman
People, Giving, Trouble

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

Harry S. Truman
Leadership, Sports, Heart

On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.

Harry S. Truman
Government, Hands, Cities
United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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
Life, Motivational, Reading
Harry S. Truman (1999). “Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed”, p.138, University of Missouri Press

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

Harry S. Truman
Children, Home, Kids
Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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
Peace, War, Communication
"Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)" by M.P. Singh, p. 101, January 1, 2005.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.

Harry S. Truman
Real, Law, Safety
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”

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

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

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

Harry S. Truman
France, Frenchmen
Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1998). “Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959”, p.261, University of Missouri Press

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

Harry S. Truman
Peace, America, Historical
Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.149, New Word City

I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."

Harry S. Truman
Jobs, Tombstone, Lying

The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.

Harry S. Truman
Important, Way, Endure

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

Harry S. Truman
Athlete, Men, President
Harry S. Truman (1987). “Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of trial and hope”, Da Capo Pr