Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

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

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

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

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.