Harry S. Truman Quotes, Thoughts and images

Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

It's not the hand that signs the laws that hold the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

The best way to advise your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage - the more the minimum, the better.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

There is some risk involved in the action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

A leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

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

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.