Henry L. Stimson Quotes

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.

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

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

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

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.

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.

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.

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

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

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.

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 card in your hand.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 all my efforts in these directions.

Hope is the mainspring of life.

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.

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