“I sincerely wish that every member of Congress could visit the displaced person's camp in Germany and Austria and see just what is happening to 500,000 human beings through no fault of their own.”Tagged: Germany, Austria, Concentration Camps, Nazis
“I was the only calm one in the house. You see I’ve been shot at by experts.”Tagged: calm, Battle Tested
“On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy.…”Tagged: Republicans, Farmers, Labor Policy, Hokum
“My favorite animal is the mule. He has more sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating — and when to stop working.”Tagged: Mule, Horse, Sense
“They are trying to make an elder statesmen of me, but they will never succeed.”Tagged: Elder Statesman
“And as I say to you, whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court, he ceases to be your friend, you can be sure of that.”Tagged: Supreme Court, Friendship
“I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!”Tagged: HUAC, McCarthyism, Red Scare
“I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president. That's the answer to that. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.”Tagged: Douglas MacArthur, dumb, You're Fired
“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 isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.”Tagged: President, Presidency, 21-Gun Salute, Honor
“He’s one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.”Tagged: Richard Nixon, Duplicity, Politicians
“It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another in either an election or horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish line that counts.”Tagged: Horse Race, Slow and Steady
“I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think it's hell.”Tagged: Truth, Give 'em Hell
“I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them…that's all the powers of the President amount to.”Tagged: Persuasion, Presidency
“My forebears were Confederates...but my very stomach turned over when I had learned that Negro soldiers, just back from overseas, were being dumped out of Army trucks in Mississippi and beaten.”Tagged: Confederates, Negroes, racism, Mississippi
“I am not sure it can ever be used...I don't think we ought to use this thing unless we absolutely have to. It is a terrible thing to order the use of something that is so terribly destructive, destructive beyond anything we have ever had. You have got to understand that this isn’t a military weapon.…”Tagged: Nuclear bombs, Destruction, Nuclear Overkill
“Nothing is more essential to the future peace of the world than continued cooperation of the nations which had to muster the force necessary to defeat the conspiracy of the Axis powers to dominate the world.”Tagged: War, Peace, Cooperation, Nations, Axis
“It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin. This policy shall be put into effect as rapidly as possible, having due regard to the…”Tagged: Opportunity, racism, discrimination, Armed Forces, Race
“If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.”Tagged: Wars, Peace, Future, UN