Harry S. Truman
To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the enemy, I extend the heartfelt thanks of a grateful Nation. As one of the Nation's finest, you undertook the most severe task one can be called upon to perform. Because you demonstrated the fortitude, resourcefulness and calm judgment necessary to carry out that task, we now look to you for leadership and example to further exalting our country in peace.Collection: Country
We worship money instead of honour.Collection: Worship
The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.Collection: Party
If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.Collection: Fishing
Beware of the guy praying loudest in the amen corner.Collection: Guy
I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.Collection: Government
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.Collection: Religious
We can all pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of Gods will. We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands.Collection: Hands
Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.Collection: Leadership
Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.Collection: Powerful
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.Collection: Friendship
We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for human welfare and happiness, so limitless in their scope; our material prosperity, so far surpassing that of earlier years; and our private spiritual blessings, so deeply cherished by all. For these we offer fervent thanks to God.Collection: Thanksgiving
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.Collection: Life
There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.Collection: Greatness
We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.Collection: War
All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with - and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.Collection: Country
If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.Collection: Winning
Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.Collection: People
If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.Collection: Military
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.Collection: War
We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.Collection: Matter
I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'.Collection: Hands
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.Collection: People
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.Collection: Patriotic
I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job ... I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below.Collection: Jobs
I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.Collection: Inspirational
You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.Collection: Pages
The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congressand that includes the great majority. I sometimes express it by saying the President is the only lobbyist that one hundred and fifty million Americans have. The other twenty million are able to employ people to represent themand thats all right, its the exercise of the right of petitionbut someone has to look after the interests of the one hundred and fifty million that are left.Collection: Jobs
The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.Collection: Men
Our goal must be not peace in our time, but peace for all time.Collection: Peace
Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.Collection: Leader
A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.Collection: Integrity
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.Collection: War
I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?Collection: Inspirational
This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.Collection: Law
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.Collection: Grandchildren
Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to...] figure out what [the right thing] is.Collection: Easy
I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.Collection: Numbers
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: Religious
I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle. And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb. But when history says that my term of office saw the begining of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it.Collection: War
I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the pointCollection: Smart
Canadian-American relations for many years did not develop spontaneously. The example of accord provided by our two countries did not come about merely through the happy circumstance of geography. It is compounded of one part proximity and nine parts good will and common sense.Collection: Country
Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.Collection: Lying
(The AMA is) "just another mean trust."Collection: Mean
At this time, we should renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we should turn to Him. . . But there are many others who are away from their homes and their loved ones on this day. Thousands of our boys are on the cold and dreary battlefield of Korea. But all of us, at home, at war, wherever we may be, are within reach of God's love and power. We can all pray. We should all pray.Collection: War
It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol, story, legend, pictures, and drama. It has served as a center of union among differing backgrounds, cultures, and countries. It serves as the means of conciliating true friendship among persons, who, because of differences, must have otherwise remained at a perpetual distance.Collection: Country
We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.Collection: Home
Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.Collection: Justice
Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.Collection: Country