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

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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.

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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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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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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.

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

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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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Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

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The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

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I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Statesman

Born: September 21st, 1867

Died: October 20th, 1950

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