It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

Hope flies on wings, and international conferences plod afterwards dusty roads.

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.