The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

— Harry S Truman

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

— Harry S Truman

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

— Harry S Truman

The reward of suffering is experience.

— Harry S Truman

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

— Harry S Truman

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

— Harry S Truman

Upon books the collective education of the race depends on; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

— Harry S Truman

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.

— 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 S Truman

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

— Harry S Truman