You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.- Harry S. Truman
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I do not believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I am taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he is going to vote against me.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it is not for you. It's for the Presidency.
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.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.
