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
There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.
The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.
We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
The 'C' students run the world.
We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.
We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.