Harry Truman

"We must have the courage to do what is right, not what is easy."

"The truth is always better than a lie, no matter how well-intentioned."

"A government is only as good as the people who serve in it."

"I believe in the innate goodness of people, when given a fair chance."

"The greatest threat to democracy is an uninformed electorate."

"I never played checkers with him. I played chess."

"Every citizen has a duty to participate in government, whether in office or out."

"The lessons of history are as vital as the lessons of science."

"I think that when the architect thinks his building is a monument, he's done for."

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

"The buck stops here."

"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."

"A man who is a coward is not fit to be President of the United States."

"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all."

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

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

"I'm going to fight hard. I'm going to give them hell."

"The President has a duty to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

"You can't make up your mind about something by going along with precedent."

"All the lessons of history and all the prophecies point to this conclusion: that so long as the capitalist system lasts, peace will be capitalism's demanding need."

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

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

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

"The fundamental basis of this nation's laws is given in the words of the Decalogue, which prescribe standards which ought to be adhered to by those who would govern."

"Being too good is apt to be uninteresting."

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

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

"I believe in the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting, amen."

"All of us are spending the most valuable thing we have – our time."

"The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is a bad law."