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

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them.

Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.

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