We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

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

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

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.

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.

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.

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