Harry S. Truman Quotes

I’ve had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.

I would rather have peace in the world than be president.

When we fail to live together in peace, the failure touches not us alone, but the cause of democracy itself in the whole world. That we must never forget.

Jews are like all underdogs. When they get on top they are just as intolerant and as cruel as the people were to them when they were underneath.

Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I’ve found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.

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. (First announcement of the atomic bomb, August 6, 1945)

Whenever the press quits abusing me I know I’m in the wrong pew. I don’t mind it because when they throw bricks at me – I’m a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw ’em back at ’em.

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.