"The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy."

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Source : Letter to President Harry S. Truman, www.imdb.com. April 11, 1951.

Harold Russell

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“The tempest unleashes an alphabetletters fall through the apertures of crazy anglesto spell out the futureuprooting the course of inventionand enslaving the masters”
“Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.”
“I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three Bs: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.”

Source : "Alice's Wonderland" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.
“When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.”
“No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.”
“Life, on confidence, is an extraordinary and powerful thing”
“Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.”
“We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.”

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