Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.
Harry S. TrumanI said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
Harry S. TrumanI tend to pair up Benjamin Harrison and Dwight Eisenhower because they're the two presidents I can think of who most preferred laziness to labor.... There's not much else you can say about Harrison except that he was president of the United States.
Harry S. TrumanThree things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
Harry S. TrumanI have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."
Harry S. Truman