Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
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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.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

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.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

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.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

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.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

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.
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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 heavily over the world.
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On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
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One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

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.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

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.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

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?
- Arthur Henderson Quote

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.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

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.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

This is our world, and we must make the best of it.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
- Arthur Henderson Quote

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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