414 Quotes by Harry S Truman

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.

I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.