01UndatedBut we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
02UndatedI 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.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
03UndatedThe 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.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
04Undated'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
08UndatedDemocracy 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.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
09UndatedAny man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
11UndatedIt 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.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
13UndatedI 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.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
14UndatedThe 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.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
15UndatedWell I wouldn't say that I was in the 'great' class but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
16UndatedWithin the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
19UndatedI don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
20UndatedWe 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 / quote ↗
21UndatedExperience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
22UndatedMy father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
24UndatedI do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.Harry S. Truman / quote ↗
