The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.