Harry Truman

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

It's a wonder that the Lord doesn't just wipe us all out.

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

I don't give a damn about the Republicans or the Democrats. I'm interested in the United States of America.

My choice in 1944 was not my own. I was drafted. It was just as much a draft as if I had been drafted into the Army.

The greatest part of my life was spent in the hog business. I know all about hogs.

If I had known how much work it was, I would never have run.

When you get to be President, there are all sorts of things you are going to find out, and you are going to find out that a lot of them are not so.

I'm not a politician by trade. I'm a farmer and a soldier and a politician by necessity.

It's hell to be President.

I have often wondered if I did the right thing. But I am sure I did. There was no other choice.

The buck stops here.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

I'm not going to be a popular President.

All my life, I've had to fight my own battles.

I think I've done a pretty good job for a boy from Missouri.

It is a terrible thing to be a President and have to make decisions that affect the lives of millions of people.

I've been cussed and discussed, boy, but I've never been licked.

A leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

I wonder how many people have ever thought of a President as a man who has to put up with a lot of slanders and lies.