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" It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. "
Harry S Truman
Lose
Job
Depression
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" Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. "
Harry S Truman
War
How
Experience
" 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. "
Harry S Truman
Bring
Apologize
You
" The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. "
Harry S Truman
Police
History
I Am
" You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. "
Harry S Truman
Dog
Friend
Politics
" The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. "
Harry S Truman
Learn
Learning
You
" All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. "
Harry S Truman
Time
Man
People
" You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. "
Harry S Truman
Believe
Enough
Plan
" A President cannot always be popular. "
Harry S Truman
President
Cannot
Always
" 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. "
Harry S Truman
Way
Best
Advice
" The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction. "
Harry S Truman
People
Good
Thought
" It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. "
Harry S Truman
Political
Trick
Time
" The buck stops here! "
Harry S Truman
Here
Stops
Buck
" Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. "
Harry S Truman
History
Leadership
Change
" A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. "
Harry S Truman
Who
Some
Republican
" Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. "
Harry S Truman
Fate
Actions
Grow
" This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come. "
Harry S Truman
Years
Come
Going
" 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. "
Harry S Truman
Wonder
Rest
Remember
" Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend. "
Harry S Truman
You
Court
Friend
" You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible. "
Harry S Truman
Stuck
Impossible
Best
" 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. "
Harry S Truman
Will
Never
Moment
" 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. "
Harry S Truman
Remember
You
Gun
" 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. "
Harry S Truman
Mouth
Talking
Time
" The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. "
Harry S Truman
Advice
Children
Find
" 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. "
Harry S Truman
Great
I Believe
Believe
" The reward of suffering is experience. "
Harry S Truman
Suffering
Reward
Experience
" If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again. "
Harry S Truman
How
Again
Packing
" Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. "
Harry S Truman
Sense
Sense Of Humor
Humor
" Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. "
Harry S Truman
Truth
Too
Often
" Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. "
Harry S Truman
Me
Vote
Know
" We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. "
Harry S Truman
War
Free
Flow