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President Quotes by Harry S. Truman
- They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go…
- 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.…
- The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the…
- It sure is hell to be president.
- Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal…
- Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I…
- 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…
- No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.
- The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congressand that includes…
- 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…
- All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what…
- 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…
- The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
- The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
- Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
- A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
- A President cannot always be popular.
- If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
- In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
- 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…
- My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
- 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…
- [The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use…
- I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
- Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
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