367 Quotes by Harry S. Truman

If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.

We must build a new world, a far better world one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs or has not been around a manure pile.

There's nothing better than cake but more cake.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted. If the second and third generations could profit by the experience of the first generation, we would not be having some of the troubles we have today.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

I have always been opposed even to the thought of fighting a 'preventive war.' There is nothing more foolish than to think that war can be stopped by war. You don't 'prevent' anything by war except peace.

Canada is a broad land broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.