There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.