Harry S. Truman

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt

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

Give me a one-handed economist All my economics say, ''On the one handasasas on the other.''

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot

You want a friend in Washington Get a dog.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

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 for fifteen years.

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.

Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

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

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.

On leaving the White House If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.

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