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“One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In the best case, it's an embarrassment, in the worst, death. That's also part of the training. They teach you to think like an astronaut, like they do with a pilot, a military man, a fireman. You dissociate in your mind the gravity of the consequences of your mistake.”

“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.”

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”

“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”