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Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Even a superpower has limits.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Nations cannot endure in sin.

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers.

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.

There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is the most powerful that now exists or ever did exist. I refer to Great Britain.