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