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
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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.
I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.
Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.
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.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.
I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.