414 Quotes by Harry S Truman

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

A President cannot always be popular.

I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.

Leadership is the art to have people do something they dislike, and have them enjoy it

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.