The only real progress to abiding peace is found in the friendly disposition of peoples and ... facilities for maintaining peace are useful only to the extent that this friendly disposition exists and finds expression. War is not only possible, but probable, where mistrust and hatred and desire for revenge are the dominant motives. Our first duty is at home with our own opinion, by education and unceasing effort to bring to naught the mischievous exhortation of chauvinists; our next is to aid in every practicable way in promoting a better feeling among peoples, the healing of wounds, and the just settlement of differences.

There is no path to peace except as the will of peoples may open to it. The way of peace is through agreement, not through force. The question then is not of a…

Now largely forgotten, Hughes was one of the great political figures of his age, both in America and on the world stage, and was very much the intellectual riv…

Time has shown how illusory are alliances of great powers so far as the maintenance of peace is concerned. In considering the use of international force to sec…

The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon the right o…

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the b…

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.