Authors - Harry S. Truman
Brief Biography
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945 - 1953). As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States (1945), he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his unprecedented fourth term. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1034by Anonymous on 09/01/2011
The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully to hear the one voice that tells him he's not.
Quote 1261by Anonymous on 11/01/2011
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Quote 1722by Anonymous on 15/01/2011
No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President.
Quote 2189by Anonymous on 24/01/2011
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Quote 2320by Anonymous on 27/01/2011
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
Quote 3149by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
Quote 4371by Anonymous on 20/02/2011
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Quote 4735by Anonymous on 27/02/2011
A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a single moment.
Quote 4761by Anonymous on 27/02/2011
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
Quote 8326by Anonymous on 04/05/2012
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.
Quote 8561by Anonymous on 18/05/2012
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Quote 9511by Anonymous on 01/08/2012
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Quote 13380by Anonymous on 17/07/2013
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
