Harry S Truman

“Study men, not historians.”

“A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.”

“The reward of suffering is experience.”

“The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.”

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

“I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.”

“A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.”

“When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.”

“Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.”

“If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.”

“Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.”