Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs...

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.