HARRY S TRUMAN is one of seventeen presidents who don’t…

“Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful…

— Michael Nir

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

— Jimmy Carter

My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

— Bret Stephens

Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.

— A. Whitney Brown

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

— Willard Scott

He [Harry S. Truman] loved politicians - even Republicans.

— Margaret Truman Daniel

Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S.…

— Jimmy Carter

“Roosevelt loved the subtleties of human relations...He was sensitive to nuances in a way that Harry Truman never was and never would be. Truman,…

— David McCullough

“Buy only what you really need and cannot do without,” President Harry Truman once said on TV.”

— Thomas H Naylor

Let me tell you, the first president to recognize the state of Israel was Harry Truman, a Democrat. And every president since, Democrat and…

— Dick Durbin

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

— Michael Ignatieff

“If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country he [Harry Truman] would have promised to provide them with free missionaries,…

— H.L. Mencken

Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.

— Robert Dallek

Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better…

— Anonymous

Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

— Robert Dallek