Hjalmar Branting Quotes
But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression
All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations
At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration
As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.
