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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over.

Great powers can't get tired, because the international order is not self-governing.

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

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.

The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.