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.

When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels of brothers.

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

Hope is the mainspring of life.

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.

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.