414 Quotes by Harry S Truman

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.

The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.

To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

When you've done the best you can, you can't do any better

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.