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
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.
Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.
How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.
Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.
I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.
In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.