Harry Truman

"I have always maintained that the Constitution must be respected at all times."

"The people have the power if they choose to use it."

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

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

"A President cannot always be popular. He has to do what he thinks is right and let the chips fall where they may."

"The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness."

"I have no fear of the future. We are able to meet it with fortitude."

"Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know."

"A man's only as old as the woman he feels."

"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."

"The buck stops here."

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

"All the wisdom in the world comes from knowing yourself."

"You want to know what's in the office of the President of the United States? Mistakes. I've made plenty of 'em."

"Peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold."

"The polls that matter are the polls taken on election day."

"We are not going to turn the Robs back; we are going to beat the pants off of them."

"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."

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

"I felt like I had been hit by a ten-ton truck."

"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 poetry anymore, it's you."

"The only thing worth stealing is a kiss."

"I never took a course in philosophy, but I picked it up as I went along."

"A nation is only as strong as its weakest citizen."

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

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."

"The human animal cannot be trusted for anything whatsoever."

"Whatever you do, you should do it well."

"I have always liked the saying that the man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

"You learn from the past; you live in the present; you work toward the future."