Harry Truman

"You want to know whether I believe in the freedom of the press? I'll tell you."

"I do not think anything is impossible to a man if he will put his mind to it."

"I am not a labor leader. I do not want you to follow me or anyone else if you are capable of walking in front of yourselves."

"The human equation is more important than the horsepower equation."

"Secrecy and democracy are fundamentally incompatible."

"The only things that matter are the standards by which a man conducts his life."

"I don't worry about anything. I never have and I never will."

"I've always believed that the best investment is in yourself."

"Most of the time a fellow should keep his mouth shut when he doesn't have anything important to say."

"A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics."

"The way to judge a good government is by how those governed are treated."

"I've no use for any discrimination. A man has his own way to make in this world."

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

"I wanted to be a fireman when I was a kid. That was before I found out that the firemen had to get up in the middle of the night when the alarm went off."

"I snore. So does the President when he is tired. The President is human."

"Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents."

"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war fruitless; it has led us to an important decision."

"The Presidency is the greatest of all public offices. If a man cannot serve his country in this office without compromising his principles, he should not take it."

"I believe that if we really want to live our faith we must give our lives to others."

"The real test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority groups compels a minority group to obey."

"I have no political ambitions for myself or my children."

"The Germans have the right to kick me out of their country but not to smash their government on my account."

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

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God."

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."

"A politician is a statesman who approaches every question of principle by announcing his opinion and then seeking facts to sustain it."

"We'll negotiate whenever they want to negotiate. But we will not be blustered or pushed into a negotiation."

"Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it."

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."