Harry S. Truman Quotes

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry S. Truman

Truth, Feeling, Often

A President cannot always be popular.
Harry S. Truman

Cannot, President, Popular

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
Harry S. Truman

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.
Harry S. Truman

Remember, Gun, President

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S. Truman

Government, Dead, Politician

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
Harry S. Truman

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Harry S. Truman

Peace, Rather, President

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
Harry S. Truman

Again, Run, Known

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S. Truman

History, Nothing, Except

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
Harry S. Truman

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S. Truman

Art, Life, Criticism

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
Harry S. Truman

President, House, United

It sure is hell to be president.
Harry S. Truman

Hell, Sure, President

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman

Dad, Failure, Father

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S. Truman

Good, Human, Thought

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S. Truman

Freedom, Possible, United

The White House is the finest prison in the world.
Harry S. Truman

House, White, Prison

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
Harry S. Truman

Forget, Why, Place

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.
Harry S. Truman

Time, Great, Trying

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S. Truman

Friend, Put, Whenever

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Harry S. Truman

Best, Two, Impossible

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: May 8, 1884

Died: December 26, 1972

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