Truman Defeated

Famous quotes containing the words truman and/or defeated:

“When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.”
—Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)

“He who succeeds is a king; he who is defeated is a bandit.”
—Chinese proverb.