367 Quotes by Harry S. Truman

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.