A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

— Harry Truman

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

— Harry Truman

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

— Harry Truman

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

— Harry Truman

Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...

— Harry Truman

I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.

— Harry Truman

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

— Harry Truman

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

— Harry Truman

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

— Harry Truman

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

— Harry Truman