« All Been Quotes · Harry S. Truman's Page
Been Quotes by Harry S. Truman
- For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and…
- This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The…
- Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been,…
- But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or…
- All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall
- I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the…
- This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your…
- I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly…
- Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been…
- The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
- There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives…
- The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been…
- Have fired 500 rounds at the Germans, at my command, been shelled, didn't run away thank the Lord and never lost a man. Probably shouldn't…
- All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the…
- If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
- A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
- 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…
- A statesman is a politician who has been dead ten or fifteen years
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour