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The reward of suffering is experience.

Harry S. Truman

Experience

Reward

Suffering

It sure is hell to be president.

Harry S. Truman

Hell

President

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.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Harry S. Truman

Care

Credit

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Harry S. Truman

Truth

Feeling

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Harry S. Truman

Kitchen

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

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!

Harry S. Truman

Time

Committee

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Harry S. Truman

Depression

Job

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

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.

Harry S. Truman

Facts