367 Quotes by Harry S. Truman

Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

The atom bomb was no ‘great decision.’ It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

This generation, raised on “Eyewitness News,” conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

You can’t get rich in politics unless you’re a crook.

I can always get along with an honest friend.