367 Quotes by Harry S. Truman

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

Tact is the ability to step on a man’s toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

Our goal must not be peace in our time but peace for all time.

Since childhood at my mother’s knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.