War Diaries (August 26) (nonfiction)
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Henry L. Stimson: August 26, 1940
The whole thing is a great clash between two big theories and interests. 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, and there are a great many people in Congress who think that they can tax business out of all proportion and still have businessmen work diligently and quickly. That is not human nature.
—Henry L. Stimson (diary)
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- Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel @ Smithsonian Magazine