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.

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

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

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

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.

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

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.