Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman
Harry S. Trumanwas the 33rd President of the United States, an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a United States Senator from Missouriand briefly as Vice Presidentbefore he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was president during the final months of World War II, making the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948. He presided...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth8 May 1884
CountryUnited States of America
Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of countries from losing their liberty. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world now agree with us, that we need not have war-that we can have peace.
I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.
A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.
Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.
A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.
Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble
...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.