Harry S. Truman Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

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

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.