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

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

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

There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long las…

- Cordell Hull

Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his inc…

- 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