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

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

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

We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move. ... The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into the position of firing the first shot.

Hope is the mainspring of life.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.