Top 22 Quotes by Henry L. Stimson

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

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself.