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Henry L. Stimson

Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican Party politician. Over his long career, he emerged as a leading figure in the foreign policy of the United States, serving in Republican and Democratic administrations. He served as Secretary of War (1911–1913) under William Howard Taft, Secretary of State (1929–1933) under Herbert Hoover, and Secretary of War (1940–1945) under Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.

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The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Anticipation, Cynicism, Deadly, Know, Sin

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

Hoover, Ink, Meeting, Private, Sitting

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

Courage, Display, People, Union, War, World

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.

Indicate, Our Actions, Speak, Talking, Unnecessary, Weakness

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.

Chief, Lesson, Life Lesson, Make, Men, Trust

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

Father Son, Make, Man, Men, Trust, Way

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, Carefully, Country, Everybody, Retirement, Soldier

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.

Atomic, Blow, Drop, Morning, Space, Successful

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Gentleman, Gentlemen, Mail, Read

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

Bomb, Effect, Entrance, Eyebrows, Victory, War

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

Debated, Difficult Questions, Difficulty, Long, Question

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.

Big, Cards, Diplomacy, Hands, Think, Thinking

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.

Balance, Effort, Man, Men, Receptive

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, Let, Trying, War, 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.

Europe, Land, Lands, Russia, Way

Hope is the mainspring of life.

Hope, Hopeful, Life, Mainspring

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, Fit, Instead, Men, Merely, Thinking

When the news first came that Japan had attacked us my first feeling was of relief that. . . a crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people. This continued to be my dominant feeling in spite of the news of catastrophes which quickly developed.

Came, Crisis, Feeling, Japan, People, War