Henry L. Stimson
Henry L. Stimson
Henry Lewis Stimsonwas an American statesman, lawyer and Republican Party politician and spokesman on foreign policy. He served as Secretary of Warunder Republican William Howard Taft, and as Governor-General of the Philippines. As Secretary of Stateunder Republican President Herbert Hoover, he articulated the Stimson Doctrine which announced American opposition to Japanese expansion in Asia. He again served as Secretary of Warunder Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, and was a leading hawk calling for war against Germany. During...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth21 September 1867
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
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.
The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.
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.
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.
A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.
As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.
History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.
Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.
History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.
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.
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.