367 Quotes by Harry S. Truman

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

We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.

Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. And the time has now arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and to help them get that protection.

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.

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

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.