No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of l…

- Cordell Hull

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on…

- Cordell Hull

I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace is the onl…

- Cordell Hull

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it…

- Cordell Hull

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes…

- Cordell Hull

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless developme…

- Cordell Hull

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilize…

- Cordell Hull

I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.

- Cordell Hull

Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an in…

- Cordell Hull