No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
One of the things that has made America exceptional - compared to other crisis-prone and class-conflicted countries - is that it has long enjoyed a benefit no other modern nation in the world could claim: the ability to engage in ceaseless, endless movement outward.
The nation is trying to catch up with a rapidly changing world.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.