Top 71 Quotes by Harry S Truman

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

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.

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.

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.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

The White House is the finest prison 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.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

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