414 Quotes by Harry S Truman

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. And the time has now arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and to help them get that protection.

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'.

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.