Quotes of the day- Harry S. Truman:
Harry S. Truman (May 8,
1884 - December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States
(1945–1953). The final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when
Roosevelt died after months of declining health. Under Truman, the U.S.
successfully concluded World War II; in the aftermath of the conflict,
tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold
War. Click
for full Wikipedia article.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he
is a leader.
A liar in public life is a lot more dangerous than a full, paid up
Communist, and I don't care who he is.
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a
politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been
dead 10 or 15 years.
About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.
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. (in 1950)
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his
time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they
are supposed to do anyway.
All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals
and the least to the people that have been the first to fall.
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall
Street and the railroads.
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, "on one hand...
on the other."
Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a
Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time.
How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.
I don't think the son of a bitch [Richard Nixon] knows the difference
between telling the truth and lying.
I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out
loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The
Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.
I fear that the machines are several centuries ahead of the morals.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out
what they want and then advise them to do it.
I know every one of these 50 fellows [journalists]. There isn't one of
them has enough sense to pound sand in a rat hole.
I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think it's
hell.
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought
to have sense enough to do without my persuading them... that's all the
powers of the President amount to.
I'll go to Japan, if that's what you want, but I won't kiss their ass.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the
credit.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression
when you lose yours.
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there
is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous,
skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
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.
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the
high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy.
On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high
cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor
policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't
convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice
of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of
increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to
all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is
Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes
haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition
when prosperity comes.
Study men, not historians.
The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing
liberty at home.
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
The President is always abused. If he isn't, he's doing nothing, and is
of no value as the Chief Executive.
The Republicans favor a minimum wage- the smaller the minimum the better.
The White House is the finest jail in the world.
When even one American- who has done nothing wrong- is forced by fear to
shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors,
the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it
isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote
against me.
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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