America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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Harry S. TrumanEconomic Report to Congress (1947)
About Harry S. Truman
33rd U.S. President who led the nation through the end of World War II. (1884-1972)
More from Harry S. Truman
- I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.Lecture at Columbia University (1959)
- One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.Letter to Harold E. Moore (1949)
- I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.Person to Person, CBS Television (1955)
- It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.As quoted in The Observer (1958)
More quotes on courage
- Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.Virginia Woolf
- There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.Jane Austen
- We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.Kurt Vonnegut
- Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.Ray Bradbury
- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.George Orwell
- It's a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.Muhammad Ali
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