414 Quotes by Harry S Truman

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with. ...Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.

To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Study men, not historians.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.