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

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.

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

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

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.

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.