Hope is the mainspring of life.
Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.
Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.
History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.
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.
If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.