Variant: Similarly on pg. 136: "About this getting rich in politics. Like I said, you just can't do it unless you're a crook." And earlier: "An honest public servant can't become rich in politics." - Truman's diary, 24 April 1954.
Source: Harry S Truman, quoted in Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman by Merle Miller, 1973-1974 SBN 425-02664-7 LOC 73-87198, Berkeley Medallion Edition, October, 1974, Chapter 10. "The Only Defeat − and Then Victory", pg. 134.
“No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.”
Book II, Chapter 1, "The Rival Conceptions of God"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Context: My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
In reply to the question 'Are you a crook?', from BBC Panorama http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/7243095.stm interviewer Fergal Keane, 11 February 2008
"Ashurst, Defeated, Reviews Service". New York Times (September 12, 1940), p. 18.
“Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.”
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)
“Unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!”
To the Countess of Cumberland. Stanza 12, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
Variant: A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Source: Walden
“There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”
“There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says "yes" you know he is a crook.”
Source: The Path of the King (1921), Ch. VIII "The Hidden City"
