Henry L. Stimson Quotes
- The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
- History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.
- It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset…
- Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.
- Hope is the mainspring of life.
- There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a…
- The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to…
- We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master…
- Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.
- The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.
- When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels…
- We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.
- Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading…
- We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the…
- Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust…
- But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and…
- The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him;…
- Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.
- Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let…
- The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.