Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Quote by Harry S Truman

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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president...

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president...

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one....

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one....

He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head...

He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head...

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents...

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents...

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House...

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House...

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President...

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President...

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has...

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has...

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought...

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought...

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like...

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like...

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a...

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a...

If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline.

If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of...

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of...

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least...

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least...

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like...

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like...

Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a...

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a...