The only failures are those who fail to try.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

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

The only failures are those who fail to try.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.