Harry S Truman World Quotations

The Russians are liars - you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world power is like this, but that's the way it is, and we must keep our strength.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world.

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

The 'C' students run the world.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.

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

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.