Aristide Briand

“There is not one peace for America, one peace for Europe, and another for Asia, but one peace for the entire world.”

“The United States of Europe must be a moral union.”

“Away with rifles, machine guns, and cannon! Make way for conciliation, arbitration, and peace!”

“Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe, there must exist a sort of federal link.”

“This law of religious freedom is not a law of hatred, of reprisals against a religion; it is a law of freedom, of respect for all beliefs, of tolerance.”

“So long as there is no international police, I am not allowed to recommend to my country a measure of disarmament.”

“Peace, if it is to be durable, must be general.”

“I say to Germany: we do not ask for your signature as a vanquished nation, but as an equal. We are here to talk, not to dictate.”

“The peoples are united in a common destiny. From now on they are partners, and they must share good fortune and ill.”

“We ourselves were not solely responsible for the war; we were not the only ones to make mistakes. So it is with a clear conscience that we are working for a reconciliation of the peoples.”

“War... is an intermittent fever of humanity.”

“It is necessary to organize peace.”

“Gentlemen, peace for us is not a vain word. It is a word that means everything.”