414 Quotes by Harry S Truman

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.

The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.