Harry S. Truman Quotes

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

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

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.

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.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

It sure is hell to be president.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

The buck stops here!

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

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.