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Inspirational Quotes by Henry L. Stimson (American Political leader)

Inspirational Quotations by Henry L. Stimson (American Political leader)

Henry Lewis Stimson (1867–1950) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican Party politician and spokesman on foreign policy. He served as Secretary of War under Republican William Howard Taft, and as Governor-General of the Philippines. As Secretary of State under Republican President Herbert Hoover, he articulated the Stimson Doctrine which announced American opposition to Japanese expansion in Asia. He again served as Secretary of War under Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, and was a leading hawk calling for war against Germany. During World War II he took charge of raising and training 13 million soldiers and airmen, supervised the spending of a third of the nation’s GDP on the Army and the Air Forces, helped formulate military strategy, and oversaw the building and use of the atomic bomb.

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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
—Henry L. Stimson
Topics: Positive Attitudes, Optimism, Trust, Marriage

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

Honor begets honor, trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.
—Henry L. Stimson
Topics: Hope, Optimism, Health, Positive Attitudes

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.
—Henry L. Stimson
Topics: Cynicism

Gentlemen do not read each others mail.
—Henry L. Stimson

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.
—Henry L. Stimson
Topics: Weapon

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