Harry Truman

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.

Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...

Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...

I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.

Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...

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.

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.