Harry Truman

"The buck stops here."

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

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

"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country."

"The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know."

"Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, 'on one hand, on the other hand.'"

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

"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who has to engage in pandering to the people."

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

"The responsibility of great states is to serve, not dominate, the world."

"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."

"Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me."

"The United Nations is the greatest idea we have ever had."

"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it."

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

"Men make history, and not the other way around."

"The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon."

"I have no fear except the fear of God. But I must confess, I don't fear Him very much."

"I've always felt that the real test of a man's mettle is not what he does in the moments of comfort, but what he does in the moments of controversy."

"A president who is, well, he's to be hoped for by the country."

"If I were in the private business and I had a choice between employing a Negro or white man, I would hire the best man for the job."

"The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse."

"Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

"I have tried to follow the personal philosophy which I think Christ would have followed."

"Being too good is apt to be uninteresting."

"It is impossible to have a free press everywhere in the world."

"The United States never lost a war or won a peace conference."

"Most of the ills which the American people face can be traced to the influence of the railroads."

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

"I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark."