Quotes from Harry S. Truman
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
- Harry S. Truman
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.
- Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
- Harry S. Truman
I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
- Harry S. Truman
We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as Canada and the United States have lived for generations.
- Harry S. Truman
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable
- Harry S. Truman
Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman
A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members
- Harry S. Truman
Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.
- Harry S. Truman
We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.
- Harry S. Truman
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
- Harry S. Truman
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
- Harry S. Truman