All Harry S. Truman Quotes
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
Harry S. Truman
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Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S. Truman
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If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
Harry S. Truman
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. Truman
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You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Harry S. Truman
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We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Harry S. Truman
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I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
Harry S. Truman
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When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
Harry S. Truman
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Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
Harry S. Truman
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S. Truman
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To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.
Harry S. Truman
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
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