Harry Truman

"I have always felt that luck is a mighty important thing in battle, and so I always tried to keep on the sunny side of things."

"The most dangerous thing in America is not the radical, but the cynical man."

"It is as much a duty of the state to render the greatest service to the greatest number of people as it is a duty to the individual."

"All the crackpots in the country seem to have a grievance."

"I am trying to do the best I can and trying to stay within the law."

"I could not have accomplished the things I have accomplished without exerting myself, and I could not exert myself if it were not for the exertions and the labors of the American people."

"Once you have the facts before you, you can reach a rational decision. You can't do that with opinions."

"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."

"The buck stops here."

"A president is a public servant."

"I have never given anybody hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it's hell."

"Being too good is apt to be uninteresting."

"I've always believed that a man should do his level best."

"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know."

"America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

"You can't get any more bipartisan than baseball."

"I am convinced that we can build a better world."

"A leader is a man of tomorrow, not yesterday."

"The only thing that matters is the character and the spine."

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

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

"I wake up every morning and make my decisions as best I can."

"A man who is a coward might as well be dead."

"To be at peace with oneself is the beginning of wisdom."

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."

"The greatest asset of a president is to have a sympathetic ear."

"I have no fear of what lies ahead."

"A person cannot be a public servant without the trust of the people."

"Duty is the most powerful force in human life."

"You must always give your best to whatever you're doing."