367 Quotes by Harry S. Truman

The record proves that in peaceful commerce the combined efforts of our countries can produce outstanding results. Our trade with each other is far greater than that of any other two nations on earth.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.

When you can’t do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we’re on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn’t have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don’t mix.

Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow.

Politics sure is the ruination of many a good man.

Nearly every crisis seems to be the worst one, but after it’s over, it isn’t so bad.

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I once described Washington as a doer surrounded by thinkers. He knew how to make the thinkers work for him, and only a truly superb politician and leader is able to do that.