Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.