Harry S. Truman Quotes

I don’t much care for your law, but, by golly, this bourbon is good.

I told him to fire away. He did and it is dynamite.

Can’t somebody bring me a one-handed economist?

Being criticized…he never did get it through his head that that’s what politics is all about.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him he is not.

Too many…pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

Party platforms are contracts with the people.

In 1945 we did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations. We set down on paper the only principles that will enable civilized human life to continue to survive on this globe.

Why, this fellow doesn’t know any more about politics than a pig on Sunday.

If you can’t stand the heat you better get out of the kitchen.

The only thing you have to worry about is bad luck. I never had bad luck.

If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his Government a Fair Deal.