“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
And
“A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.”
And
“All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.”
And
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
And
“Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.”
And
“I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.”
And
“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.”
And
“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”
And
“I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.”
And
“If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.”
And
“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
And
“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.”
And
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.”
And
“My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.”
And
“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.”
And
“The buck stops here!”
And
“The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.”
And
“The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.”
And
“The reward of suffering is experience.”
And
“When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.”
And
“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 for you. It’s for the Presidency.”
And
“You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.”
And
“You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.”
Wikipedia: Harry Truman
