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Henry L. Stimson has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• 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…
• The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been…
• We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without…
• 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…
• We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

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