Arthur Henderson Quotes
To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
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.
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 world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.
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 Peace Treaties.
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.
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.
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 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.
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 the markets of other nations.
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.
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 peace?
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.
One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.