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
Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great
We are trying to prevent a third world war.
When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.
Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know
The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
When you've done the best you can, you can't do any better
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.