Harry Truman

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

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

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.

Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I have found that the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it.

Always do right - it will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

The atom bomb was no "great decision." . . . It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.