Hope is the mainspring of life.

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.

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

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

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

We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move. ... The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into the position of firing the first shot.

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