Harry S. Truman Quotes

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

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

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.

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.

I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.

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

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity as well as the inalienable right to govern himself with reason and justice.

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.

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.

The buck stops here.

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.

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.

The "C" students run the world.

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.

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

Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell Harricum!