Truman Quotes

72 quotes by 61 authors

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly — Truman Capote
To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions.… — Truman Capote
A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single… — Zack de la Rocha
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. — Lyndon B. Johnson
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who,… — Mary McCarthy
Truman Capote is really an interesting cat. — Steve Earle
In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic… — Stewart Udall
Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who… — Monica Crowley
Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have… — Monica Crowley
I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at… — Jed S. Rakoff
I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul. — Willard Scott
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan… — Robert Dallek
Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them. — Robert Dallek
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman. — Robert Dallek
During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman an… — Robert Dallek
Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer. — Lisa Unger
First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance.… — Karen DeCrow
Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population… — Rick Perlstein
At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as… — Paul Hoffman
I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman. — Paul Hoffman

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