Quotes from Harry S. Truman

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

The 'C' students run the world.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.