Top Ten Best Harry S. Truman Quotes

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States and served during the final months of World War II, making the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Top Ten
1 There are times in world history when it is far wiser to act than to hesitate. There is some risk involved in action-there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
2 One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.
3 ..But alarm is one thing, and hysteria is another. Hysteria impels people to destroy the very thing they are struggling to preserve.
4 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.
5 ..if you ever pray,pray for me now.I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you,but..I felt like the moon,the stars & all the planets had fallen on me.I've got the most terribly responsible job a man ever had.
6 No government is perfect. One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.
7 It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
8 I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think it's hell.
9 Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
10 I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.
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