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.

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

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