Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.
Having excessive power in the hands of one country meant the fate of the world was too dependent on what happened in that one country.
There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.
In his sensitive hands lay much of the world’s fate
Eden was then Foreign Secretary.
We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.
One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.