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

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

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

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.

Hope is the mainspring of life.