If we mean to have heroes statesmen and philosophers we should have learned women.

Moreover war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.