Quotes by Harry S. Truman

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

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

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.

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

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

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

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.