Harry S. Truman

“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.”
― Harry Truman

“Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable”
― Harry Truman

“[we are] going to continue to fight communism. Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism. We are not going to transform our fine FBI into a Gestapo secret police. That is what some people would like to do. We are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. We are not going to turn the United States into a right-wing totalitarian country in order to deal with a left-wing totalitarian threat.”
― Harry S. Truman

“How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who’s hitting you.”
― Harry S. 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 S. Truman

“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.”
― Harry Truman