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

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

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.