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“I have just read your lousy review buried in the back pages. You
sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an
eight-ulcer man on a four-ulcer job, and all four ulcers working. I
have never met you, but if I do you'll need a new nose and plenty of
beefsteak and perhaps a supporter below. Westbrook Pegler, a
guttersnipe, is a gentleman compared to you. You can take that as more
of an insult than as a reflection on your ancestry.”

-- President Harry S Truman


He'll sit here and he'll say, "Do this! Do that!" And nothing will happen.
- Harry S. Truman, on presidential power


It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression
when you lose yours.
-- Harry S. Truman


It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression
when you lose yours.
-- Harry S. Truman


“Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall
Street and the railroads.”
Harry S Truman


When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry Truman


If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
--- Harry S Truman


When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry Truman


A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
-- Harry S. Truman


I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens
who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known
something of what has been passing in their time.
-- H. Truman


If you cannot convince them, confuse them
-- Harry S. Truman, U.S. President (1884-1972)


If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

-- Harry S Truman


When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

-- Harry Truman


I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens
who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known
something of what has been passing in their time.
-- H. Truman


If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

-- Harry S Truman


Men don't change. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't
know.

-- President Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)


“I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and
25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be
true.”

-- Harry Truman


“The nice thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it.” (Truman Capote)


A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
-- Harry S. Truman