Harry S. Truman

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

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.

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

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