Henry L. Stimson

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; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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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 our actions speak for themselves. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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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. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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

— Henry L. Stimson

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

— Henry L. Stimson

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I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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

— Henry L. Stimson

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Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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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. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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