“ Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced. Margaret Truman
“ George Elsey put it succinctly: You can’t sit around and wait for public opinion to tell you what to do. In the first place there isn’t any public opinion. The public doesn’t know anything about it; t… Margaret Truman
“ I am obligated to the Big Boss, a man of his word, but he gives it very seldom and usually on a sure thing. But he is not a trimmer. He, in times past, owned a bawdy house, a saloon and gambling estab… Margaret Truman
“ Dad once defined leadership as the art of persuading people to do what they should have done in the first place. If they bullheadedly refuse to take this advice, there is not much the leader can do, i… Margaret Truman
“ The Congress ran off and left everything just as I expected they would do and now they are trying to blame me because they did nothing. I just don’t believe people can be fooled that easily. Margaret Truman
“ I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before the law. . . . In giving the Negro the rights which are theirs we are only acting in… Margaret Truman
“ And what to do with Mr. Prima Donna, Brass Hat, Five Star MacArthur. He’s worse than the Cabots and the Lodges - they at least talked with one another before they told God what to do. Mac tells God ri… Margaret Truman
“ It was said in the First World War that the French fought for their country, the British fought for freedom of the seas, and the Americans fought for souvenirs. Margaret Truman
“ I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together Margaret Truman
“ Well 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. Margaret Truman
“ But they are not risks of our own making, and we cannot make the danger vanish by pretending that it does not exist. We must be prepared to meet that danger with sober self-restraint and calm and judi… Margaret Truman
“ Dad was not enjoying himself very much either, as is evident from this comment to his mother and sister: We had a nice time at the Fair if you can call it a nice time to be followed around by thirty n… Margaret Truman
