Quotes by Henry L. Stimson

Henry L. Stimson

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

Hoover

Ink

Sitting

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.

Japan

Unconditional Love

War

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.

Bombs

Men

Thinking

Gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail.

Gentleman

Mail

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

Happened

History

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

People

War

World

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

Christian

Faith

Hope

Hope is the mainspring of life.

Hopeful

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won’t work.

Country

Trying

War

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 the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

Army

Country

Retirement

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Hoover

Hope

Hopeful

Ink

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Quotes by Henry L. Stimson

Henry L. Stimson

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

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.

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.

Gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail.

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

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

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

Hope is the mainspring of life.

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won’t work.

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 the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

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