10. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. —Harry S. Truman
When Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office, this simple man from Missouri became President and made the ultimate decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No stranger to tough decisions, his desk carried a sign saying The buck stops here. When courageous decisions were needed, Truman made them.