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.

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.

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

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

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

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.

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