Top 71 Quotes by Harry S Truman

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

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.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

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.

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.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.