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I Had Been Conscious A Feeling Of Depression And So I Voiced To [secretary Of War Stimson] My Grave Misgivings, First On The Basis Of My Belief That Japan Was Already Defeated And That Dropping The Bomb Was Completely Unnecessary, And Secondly Because I Thought That Our Country Should Avoid Shocking World Opinion By The Use Of A Weapon Whose Employment Was, I Thought, No Longer Mandatory As A Measure To Save American Lives. It Was My Belief That Japan Was, At This Very Moment, Seeking A Way To Surrender With A Minimum Loss Of 'face.'

No One Should Be Appointed To Political Office If He Is A Seeker After It.

Politics Is A Profession; A Serious, Complicated And, In Its True Sense, A Noble One.

A Good Teacher Is One Who Can Understand Those Who Are Not Very Good At Explaining, And Explain To Those Who Are Not Very Good At Understanding.

Our Forms Of Government - Though Both Cast In The Democratic Pattern - Are Greatly Different. Indeed, Sometimes It Appears That Many Of Our Misunderstandings Spring From An Imperfect Knowledge On The Part Of Both Of Us Of The Dissimilarities In Our Forms Of Government.