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.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

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.

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

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

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.