Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman
Harry S. Trumanwas the 33rd President of the United States, an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a United States Senator from Missouriand briefly as Vice Presidentbefore he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was president during the final months of World War II, making the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948. He presided...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth8 May 1884
CountryUnited States of America
Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'.
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.
A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.
There's nothing better than cake but more cake.
There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.
Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way.
If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.
On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.