414 Quotes by Harry S Truman

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

I don't feel qualified to be president either, but I've got the job.

Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which scientists are expected to change their theories to match changes in the police state's propaganda line.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.