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

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

Hope is the mainspring of life.

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.

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

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

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