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.


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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
HENRY FORD
Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few ...
HENRY ROLLINS
The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed ...
HENRY BESSEMER
Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 ...
HENRY ROLLINS
$250,000 isn't a lot, but it is enough to make a statement. We are looking for projects that will be...
AL HENRY
I'm proud of our team. We great leadership from our four seniors - Peter Jerome, Josh Trottier, Alex...
AL HENRY
Give credit where credit is due. Fargo South is a machine.
AL HENRY
This is an OK way to end it. As far as I'm concerned, our team is the winner.
AL HENRY
The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many st...
HENRY WILLIAMSON
Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a batt...
HENRY VILLARD
Today, most believers are segregated and isolated in their church or in their home. If believers acc...
HENRY HON
Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
HENRY ADAMS
You are the reason I don't want to die all the time. When I am with you, life is worth living. Tim...
HENRY ROLLINS
I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I ...
HENRY SELICK
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
HENRY MILLER
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inext...
HENRY MILLER
This is all the Inheritance I can give to my dear Family. The Religion of Christ can give them one w...
PATRICK HENRY
There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be freeif we mean to preserve inviolate those in...
PATRICK HENRY
Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our ...
PATRICK HENRY
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a pain...
PATRICK HENRY
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? ...
PATRICK HENRY
They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
HENRY VAUGHAN
All this, and Heaven too!
PHILIP HENRY
To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold,...
HENRY ROLLINS
Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individu...
HENRY BONILLA
A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market disto...
HENRY PAULSON
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, becaus...
HENRY PETROSKI
In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with...
HENRY ROLLINS
'Immortals' was very much a martial arts based training program - a lot of body weight stuff...
HENRY CAVILL
When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days ...
HENRY ROLLINS
The Things that Cause a Quiet Life

My friend, the things that do attain
The happy li...
HENRY HOWARD
We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon ou...
HENRY ROLLINS
Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligati...
HENRY PAULSON
Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a di...
HENRY CISNEROS
Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that ma...
HENRY WADE