Harry Truman

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. And the time has now arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and to help them get that protection.

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.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.

Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing. They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights. They favor minimum wage--the smaller the minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them. They consider electrical power a great blessing--but only when the private power companies get their rake-off. They think American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people. And they admire of Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in

The fundamental basis of this nation__ laws was given to Moses on the Mount_If we don__ have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues._ The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make __m behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.