Henry L. Stimson

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to…

— Henry L. Stimson

When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels…

— Henry L. Stimson

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

— Henry L. Stimson

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick…

— Henry L. Stimson

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy…

— Henry L. Stimson

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

— Henry L. Stimson

I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.

— Henry L. Stimson

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

— Henry L. Stimson

Hope is the mainspring of life.

— Henry L. Stimson

We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the…

— Henry L. Stimson

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some…

— Henry L. Stimson

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

— Henry L. Stimson

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

— Henry L. Stimson

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature…

— Henry L. Stimson

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been…

— Henry L. Stimson

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

— Henry L. Stimson

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without…

— Henry L. Stimson

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking…

— Henry L. Stimson

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors…

— Henry L. Stimson

I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.

— Henry L. Stimson

Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that…

— Henry L. Stimson

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that…

— Henry L. Stimson

The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right;…

— Henry L. Stimson

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

— Henry L. Stimson

A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.

— Henry L. Stimson