Quotes from Harry S. Truman

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.

Believe and you're halfway there.

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.

All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with — and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

I shall continue to do what I think is right, whether anybody likes it or not.

I'm just a politician from Missouri and proud of it.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt?