15 Henry L. Stimson Quotes

Henry L. Stimson quotes

1. The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

2. The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

3. Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

1. 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 of brothers.

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

3. 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 Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.

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

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

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

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

8. Hope is the mainspring of life.

9. We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move. ... The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into the position of firing the first shot.

10. 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 Russia to play ball.

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

12. 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 dangerous to fit into old concepts.