Harry S Truman

“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.”

“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.”

“When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.”

“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.”

“The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.”

“A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.”

“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.”

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”

“The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.”

“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.”

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”

“Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.”

“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”

“If you can't convince them, confuse them.”

“Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.”

“The reward of suffering is experience.”

“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.”

“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.”

“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.”