Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

- Henry L. Stimson

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

- Henry L. Stimson

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

- 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 un…

- Henry L. Stimson

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

- 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…

- Henry L. Stimson

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 …

- Henry L. Stimson

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

- Henry L. Stimson

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 b…

- Henry L. Stimson