Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.