Harry S. Truman Quotes About Winning

Quotes about: Winning

• If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.

  Harry S. Truman

  Winning, Self, Victory

• If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

  Harry S. Truman

  Winning, Russia, Germany

  The New York Times (June 24, 1941); later quoted in "National Affairs: Anniversary Remembrance", content.time.com. July 2, 1951.

• They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Fighting, Winning

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

• I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle. And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb. But when history says that my term of office saw the begining of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Struggle, Winning

  Farewell Address, delivered 15 January 1953

• When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.

  Harry S. Truman

  Army, Winning, Presidential

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