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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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