Harold Russell quotes:

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.

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.

My life is a series of things that just happen.