I have just read your lousy review buried in the back pages. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eight-ulcer man on a four-ulcer job, and all four ulcers working. I never met you, but if I do you’ll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps […]
Harry S. Truman Quotes
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
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!
People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
When you’ve done the best you can, you can’t do any better.
Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless, and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop that terrible bomb on the old capital or the new. (written in his diary 25th July 1945, just before he gave the OK for bombing Hiroshima rather than Tokyo or Kyoto)
Dean Acheson took Oppenheimer into the Oval Office and introduced him to Truman. Oppenheimer said, ‘I have blood on my hands.’ Truman claims that he responded to Oppenheimer by saying, ‘Never mind, it will all come out in the wash.’ Then Truman cut short the interview… Acheson was called back into Truman’s presence… Truman shouted […]
Just how sensitive and on edge the world had become (over the possibility of the Korean War leading to a general war) was demonstrated when the words “atomic bomb” were mentioned at my press conference on November 30 (1951). At the press conference I made the remark that “we will take whatever steps are necessary […]
It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler’s crowd or Stalin’s did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful.
