Arthur Henderson Quotes

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• The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
• The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable…
• Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
• To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
• The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.
• It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that…
• Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end…
• On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and…
• One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
• The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.
• As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers…
• But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form…
• Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear…
• He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst…
• I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy…
• In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the…
• In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in…
• In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is…
• In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
• It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

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