Top 71 Quotes by Harry S Truman

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.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

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.

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

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.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

A President cannot always be popular.

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