Public Opinion Shapes Our Destinies And Guides

It Is By Such Means As The Prize Offered By Your Committee That The Attention Of The World Will Be Focused And That Men And Women Will Be Inspired To Greater Efforts In The Interest Of Peace.

It Is Idle To Say That Nations Can Struggle To Outdo Each Other In Building Armaments And Never Use Them. History Demonstrates The Contrary, And We Have But To Go Back To The Last War To See The Appalling Effect Of Nations Competing In Great Armaments.

It Is True Not All Has Been Accomplished That The Earnest Advocates Would Desire, But A Start Has Been Made.

I Believe That In The End The Abolition Of War, The Maintenance Of World Peace, The Adjustment Of International Questions By Pacific Means Will Come Through The Force Of Public Opinion, Which Controls Nations And Peoples.

Adequate Defense Has Been The Catchword Of Every Militarist For Centuries.