Quotes by Harry S. Truman

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.

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.

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

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

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

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.

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

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.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.