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.
~ Harry S. Truman - [Solutions]

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
~ Harry S. Truman - [Truth]

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
~ Harry S. Truman - [Truth]

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
~ Harry S. Truman - [Truth]

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
~ Harry S. Truman - [United Nations]

When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
~ Harry S. Truman - [Voting]

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
~ Harry S. Truman - [Peace]

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
~ Harry S. Truman - [Peace]

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.
~ Harry S. Truman - [Politicians and Politics]

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
~ Harry S. Truman - [Politicians and Politics]

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
~ Harry S. Truman - [Politicians and Politics]

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.
~ Harry S. Truman - [Politicians and Politics]

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
~ Harry S. Truman - [Politicians and Politics]

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
~ Harry S. Truman - [Polls]

Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
~ Harry S. Truman - [President]

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.
~ Harry S. Truman - [President]

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.
~ Harry S. Truman - [President]

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.
~ Harry S. Truman - [President]

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.
~ Harry S. Truman - [Leaders and Leadership]

How do you live a long life? ''Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.''
~ Harry S. Truman - [Longevity]