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Harry S. Truman
18 quotes
Quotes
- “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 ...”
- “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 ...”
- “It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint and he unde...”
- “Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity as well as the inalienable right ...”
- “The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty mi...”
- “The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do witho...”
- “Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be s...”
- “But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who know...”
- “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.”
- “Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.”
- “I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.”
- “Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.”
- “How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?”
- “Once a decision was made I did not worry about it afterward.”
- “Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.”
- “Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell Harricum!”
- “The "C" students run the world.”
- “The buck stops here.”