Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
197
AUTHOR:
Harry S. Truman (18841972)
QUOTATION:
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.
ATTRIBUTION:
HARRY S. TRUMAN, television interview on Person to Person, with Margaret Truman as interviewer, May 27, 1955, as reported by The New York Times, May 28, 1955, p. 33.