"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."
― Harry S. Truman
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Government
― Harry S. Truman
More From Harry S. Truman
- "Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."
- "Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."
- "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."
More In Government
- "Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."― Benjamin Franklin
- "But here too it should be noted that the President’s approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade."― Barney Frank
- "Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."― John Kenneth Galbraith