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

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.

When the news first came that Japan had attacked us my first feeling was of relief that ... a crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people. This continued to be my dominant feeling in spite of the news of catastrophes which quickly developed.

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

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

A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.

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