Harry S. Truman Quotes

1884 – 1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States (1945–53), an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a United States senator from Missouri (1935–45) and briefly as vice president (1945) before he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was president during the final months of World War II, making the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948. He presided over an uncertain domestic scene as America sought its path after the war, and tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War.

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Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

إنني لم أعكر صفو حياتهم أبدا، إنني فقط أخبرهم بالحقيقة .. فيرونها جحيماً !!”
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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

If you can read this thank a teacher.

No man can get rich in politics unless he's a crook. − Harry S Truman, quoted in Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman by Merle Miller, 1973-1974 SBN 425-02664-7 LOC 73-87198, Berkeley Medallion Edition, October, 1974, Chapter 10. "The Only Defeat − and Then Victory", pg. 134.

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

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

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Bạn có thể làm được bất cứ điều gì trong cuộc sống với điều kiện bạn đừng để ý ai là người hưởng công.

I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.

You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.

But America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Within the first few months I discovered that being President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.