Harry S. Truman

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

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.

This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

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.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.

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

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion alone of the moment that counts.

I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.

You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.

When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.