Harry Truman — "I'm just a simple country boy who got lucky."

"It's a wonder that any of us are alive, considering what we've been through."

"Give 'em hell, Harry!"

"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."

"I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail."

"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…"