ROBERT CECIL, 1ST VISCOUNT CECIL OF CHELWOOD

The League is dead; long live the United Nations.

Are we going to permit uncontrolled nationalism to dominate civilized Europe…?

No one expects a belligerent to tell the truth.

Diplomacy was the only protection we had against war; and its achievements were of the utmost importance and value to the human race.

Professional opinion is almost inevitably against changes.

Collective effort can produce collective security and that if such effort is not made, it is because the will and the courage to make it are not there.

The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose

The old diplomat liked to move with deliberation, in secret, following well-established traditions and working through what he loved to describe as "the usual channels". To him, the open debate carried on, not by professional diplomats, but by politicians and statesmen having little regard for the use of the technical phraseology of diplomacy and intent merely on reaching results which would make diplomacy unnecessary, was offensive to all his instincts.

The League is dead; long live the United Nations.

Diplomacy was the only protection we had against war; and its achievements were of the utmost importance and value to the human race.

The old diplomat liked to move with deliberation, in secret, following well-established traditions and working through what he loved to describe as "the usual channels". To him, the open debate carried on, not by professional diplomats, but by politicians and statesmen having little regard for the use of the technical phraseology of diplomacy and intent merely on reaching results which would make diplomacy unnecessary, was offensive to all his instincts.

Professional opinion is almost inevitably against changes.

The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose

Collective effort can produce collective security and that if such effort is not made, it is because the will and the courage to make it are not there.

Are we going to permit uncontrolled nationalism to dominate civilized Europe…?

No one expects a belligerent to tell the truth.