#h

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#both sides #country #few #high #high office

Study men, not historians. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#men #study

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#either #i #manson #mother #mother teresa

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dead #government #man #politician #statesman

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. ↗

— Alice Walker

#culture #enslaved #grew #i #i love

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

— Harry S. Truman

#history #know #new #nothing #nothing new

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#always #animal #any #anything #cannot

Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras. ↗

— Margaret Truman

#conference #considered #mother #par #press

I fought fire with oil. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#fought #i #oil

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. ↗

— Alice Walker

#either #else #fact #give #got