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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Henry L. Stimson
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Henry L. Stimson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1867
Born: September 21
Died: 1950
Died: October 20
Diplomat
Former Governor-General Of The Philippines
Lawyer
Politician
New York City
New York
Henry Lewis Stimson
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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.
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Honor begets honor trust begets trust faith begets faith and hope is the mainspring of life.
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There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.
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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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History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.
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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.
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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.
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