American
President and
Politician
(May 8,
1884 -
December 26,
1972)
"The absence of war is not peace."
"Actions are the seed of fate, deeds grow into destiny."
"The buck stops here."
"I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do."
"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."
"I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work."
"If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em."
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
"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."
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all."
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
"The reward of suffering is experience."
"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."
"Whenever I make a bum decision, I just go out and make another one."
