Harry S. Truman

The buck stops here.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Study men, not historians.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again. - on leaving the White House, from Time Magazine, 1/26/53

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

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.

Jeśli nie dajesz rady ich przekonać, zmieszaj ich szyki.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.

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.

How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Toombstone, Arizona. It says: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest." I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.

All the president is,is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering,kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposes to do anyway

If u cannot stand the heat,get out of the kitchen

A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifteen years"

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation.If i die,every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation

Kto w polityce rąbie pięścią w stół, powinien najpierw upewnić się, że nie leżą na nim pinezki.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.