My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
— Harry S Truman
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
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 they are supposed to do anyway.
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
The reward of suffering is experience.
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
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 machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
