Quotes about World by Arthur Henderson

Arthur Henderson British politician

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 international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

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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 of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

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It has been said that since September, 1931, the world has been divided into wholehearted violators and halfhearted supporters of the Covenant.

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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 explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so...

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One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

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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 armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

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The inevitable result was the balance of power, the arms race, the dividing up of the world into rival alliances, and ultimately, war.

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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 civilization.

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The Peace Conference was the scene, or, shall we say, the first stage, in a tremendous struggle between the new forces, the new hopes and aspirations to which the agony of the World War had given birth, and the champions of the old order in...

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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 welfare and prosperity.

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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 community of nations.

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The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

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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.

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This is our world, and we must make the best of it.

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Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.

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To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

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We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

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