Harry S. Truman Quotes About Elections

Quotes about: Elections

• It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

  Harry S. Truman

  Destiny, Hands, Law

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

• All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

  Harry S. Truman

  Kissing, Men, People

  Letter to his sister, 14 Nov. 1947, in Off the Record: the Private Papers of Harry S. Truman (1980) p. 119

• If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.

  Harry S. Truman

  Hands, People, Want

• 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

• It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
  It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts

  Harry S. Truman

  Horse, Race, Important

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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