Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.