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President Harry S. Truman

“We all have to recognize, no matter how great our strength, that we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please.” and “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.” – two quotes from President Harry S. Truman, the man who decided to drop two nuclear bombs on Japan, resulting in the death of between 150,000 to 246,000 people. Wikipedia article on Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki