Top 71 Quotes by Harry S Truman

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

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

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

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

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.