 To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order. |
| Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. |
| I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise. |
| The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis. |
| The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. |
| The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace? |
| Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries. |
| It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world. |
| One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world. |
| In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations. |
| In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. |
| He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. |
