Occupation: British Politician Birth: September 20, 1863 Death: October 20, 1935
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide ….
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 intellec….
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis..
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civ….
The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a….
Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history..
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inev….
The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole c….
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries..
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 ….
In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kin….
In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of ….
I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international an….
The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history..
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfa….
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 realization that i….
To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order..
This is our world, and we must make the best of it..
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 I propose to devote myself to exp….
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 by the ….