Quotes by Harry Truman

“Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier it is only when you get into it that all the angles and hard work become apparent. James Forrestal”

“[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues. The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make em behave. Well,...”

“Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.”

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”

“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.”

“Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth ...”

“Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...”

“I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.”

“Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...”

“Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.”

“Politics should make a thief, a rou, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...”

“some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.”

“The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does ...”

“Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...”

“some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.”