414 Quotes by Harry S Truman

You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.

If you can't convince them, confuse them

Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.

Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...

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.

ACTIONS ARE THE SEED OF FATE

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

We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.