Harry S. Truman

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.

Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell Harricum!

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

The buck stops here.

The 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.

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.

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 did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

The "C" students run the world.

It 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.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

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

Once a decision was made I did not worry about it afterward.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

Democracy 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.

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

The 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.