Harry Truman — "I want to be remembered as a man who did his best."

"It's an awful thing to be a President. You can't just go out and buy a new suit without someone saying you're extravagant."

"The atom bomb was a terrible thing, but it saved a million American lives."

"I don't propose to be a candidate for President in 1948. I'm going to run for President in 1948."

"I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's an honest man and decent and not a nigger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a white man from dust, a nigger from mud, then th…"

"There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have more sense than to vote for me."