Harry S. Truman
A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.Collection: Leadership
When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.Collection: Decision
I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.Collection: Baseball
I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.Collection: Christian
The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.Collection: Thinking
The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.Collection: War
The stress stops hereCollection: Stress
Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.Collection: People
I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.Collection: Believe
Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For Canada is enriched by the heritage of France as well as of Britain, and Quebec has imparted the vitality and spirit of France itself to Canada. Canada's notable achievement of national unity and progress through accommodation, moderation and forbearance can be studied with profit by her sister nations.Collection: Character
Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. The time has arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and that protection.Collection: Opportunity
If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.Collection: War
Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.Collection: Trouble
The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.Collection: Strength
I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.Collection: Japan
If you can't dance then you are a loser.Collection: Loser
But all of us-at home, at war, wherever we may be-are within the reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will.Collection: War
All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.Collection: Life
It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.Collection: Mistake
Men make history. History does not make the man.Collection: Men
You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.Collection: Hands
I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.Collection: President
We are trying to prevent a third world war.Collection: War
Despite his unimpressive appearance and manner, he was a brilliant fellow with a crystal-clear mind.... It was just that, when it came time for him to act like an executive, he was like a great many other people; when the time comes to make decisions, they have difficulty doing it.Collection: People
I don't feel qualified to be president either, but I've got the job.Collection: Jobs
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.Collection: Men
I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, "Don't Worry Me--I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay.Collection: Men
Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.Collection: Luxury
This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to the security of all free nations.Collection: Real
We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.Collection: Respect
This is a Christian nation.Collection: Bible
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.Collection: Country
No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.Collection: Family
All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fallCollection: Fall
Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.Collection: Past
Partisanship must end at the waters edge.Collection: Water
But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line.Collection: War
On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.Collection: Ideas
There's nothing better than cake but more cake.Collection: Cake
I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.Collection: Flying
I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.Collection: Prisoner
At this moment, I have in my heart a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I humbly pray, Almighty God, in the words of King Solomon: 'Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad, for who is able to judge this thy so great people?' I ask only to be a good and faithful servant of my LORD and my people.Collection: Kings
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.Collection: Leadership
All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.Collection: Order
This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.Collection: Bible
There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.Collection: Inspirational
There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.Collection: Opportunity
The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.Collection: Honor