The America to which these Swedish settlers came was a land that needed the hardy qualities they brought. It was not a land that was particularly softhearted towards newcomers, but everyone believed that each should have a fair chance regardless of his origin.

— Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman Quotes

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

— Harry S. Truman

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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.

— Harry S. Truman

May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.

— Harry S. Truman

This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to the security of all free nations.

— Harry S. Truman

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

— Harry S. Truman

If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.

— Harry S. Truman

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

— Harry S. Truman

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

— Harry S. Truman

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

— Harry S. Truman

I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

— Harry S. Truman

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.

— Harry S. Truman

Why, this fellow doesn’t know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

— Harry S. Truman

Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

— Harry S. Truman

The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.

— Harry S. Truman

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

— Harry S. Truman

All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.

— Harry S. Truman

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

— Harry S. Truman

With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.

— Harry S. Truman

The absence of war is not peace.

— Harry S. Truman

To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

— Harry S. Truman

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