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.
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.
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
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.
It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.
The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.
Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness.
The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record.
We can never tell what is in store for us.
If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen.