Author: Henry L. Stimson

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Henry L. Stimson

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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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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