367 Quotes by Harry S. Truman

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.

You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran’s desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view we were happy to see that the British Government has on its part accepted the principle of nationalization.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

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.

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.