Harry S. Truman

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

— Harry S. Truman

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for…

— Harry S. Truman

With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a…

— Harry S. Truman

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there…

— Harry S. Truman

I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.

— Harry S. Truman

The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

— Harry S. Truman

If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.

— Harry S. Truman

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

— Harry S. Truman

No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest…

— Harry S. Truman

It's tougher to be a football coach than the President of the United States. You've got four years as a president, and…

— Harry S. Truman

Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. Millions do not…

— Harry S. Truman

We can all pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of Gods will. We should ask for courage, wisdom,…

— Harry S. Truman

The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history…

— Harry S. Truman

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends…

— Harry S. Truman

One of the presidents we could have done without… There are some things I admire about Tyler, but there were also plenty…

— Harry S. Truman

Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks…

— Harry S. Truman

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man…

— Harry S. Truman

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

— Harry S. Truman

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

— Harry S. Truman

I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, "Don't Worry Me--I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay.

— Harry S. Truman

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren…

— Harry S. Truman

I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they…

— Harry S. Truman

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

— Harry S. Truman

“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”

— Harry S. Truman

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

— Harry S. Truman

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never…

— Harry S. Truman

Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of…

— Harry S. Truman

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

— Harry S. Truman

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

— Harry S. Truman

Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

— Harry S. Truman

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern…

— Harry S. Truman

It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse…

— Harry S. Truman

The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot…

— Harry S. Truman

The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand…

— Harry S. Truman

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it…

— Harry S. Truman

Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.

— Harry S. Truman

The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore…

— Harry S. Truman

When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he…

— Harry S. Truman

As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed.…

— Harry S. Truman

It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to…

— Harry S. Truman