Harry S Truman Presidential Quotations

When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.

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.

We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as Canada and the United States have lived for generations.

Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.

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.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.

I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the 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.

He "wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed."