414 Quotes by Harry S Truman

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

We can never tell what is in store for us.

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

May the sun never set on American baseball.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.

Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.