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Henry L. Stimson Quotes

1867–1950 United States

Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican Party politician and spokesman on foreign policy. He served as Secretary of War (1911–1913) under Republican William Howard Taft, and as Governor-General of the Philippines (1927–1929).

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Also known as: Stimson, Stimson, Henry L.

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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

On Active Service in Peace and War (1948)

Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.

The latter is the fact but I am afraid it will make a tremendous hole in our constitutional system.

I am confident that you will agree with me that Gen. Eisenhower's decision, under these difficult circumstances, was right and proper.

The decision to weigh Lieut. Gen. Patton's great services to his country, in World War I and World War II, from these shores to Casablanca and through Tunisia to triumph in Sicily, on the one hand, against an indefensible act on the other, was Gen. Eisenhower's.

The second generation Japanese can only be evacuated either as part of a total evacuation, giving access to the areas only by permits, or by frankly trying to put them out on the ground that their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese. The latter is the fact but I am afraid it will make a tremendous hole in our constitutional system.

we needed the Japanese to commit the first overt act

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry L. Stimson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.