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.

This is our world, and we must make the best of it.

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

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?

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

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

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.