367 Quotes by Harry S. Truman

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you’ve done the best you can, you can’t do any better.

But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I’ve been to reunions of Quantrill’s men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line...

If you don’t have your own goals, you’ll be doomed to work toward someone else’s.

The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation’s faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.

I have to decide Japanese strategy – shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I’ll make it when I have all the facts.

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!