It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.

- Frank B. Kellogg

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

- Frank B. Kellogg

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

- Frank B. Kellogg

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

- Frank B. Kellogg

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

- Frank B. Kellogg

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

- Frank B. Kellogg

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

- Frank B. Kellogg

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.

- Frank B. Kellogg

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

- Frank B. Kellogg

I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

- Frank B. Kellogg

I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.

- Frank B. Kellogg

Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

- Frank B. Kellogg

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

- Frank B. Kellogg

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

- Frank B. Kellogg

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

- Frank B. Kellogg

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

- Frank B. Kellogg

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

- Frank B. Kellogg

France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.

- Frank B. Kellogg

Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep?

- Frank B. Kellogg

To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods.

- Frank B. Kellogg