It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system. – Arthur Henderson
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. – Arthur Henderson
Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. – Arthur Henderson
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. – Arthur Henderson
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. – Rainer Maria Rilke