Frank B. Kellogg Quotes

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.

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.

I Do Not Hesitate To Say That The Limitation On Naval Craft Between The Great Naval Powers Was Too High.

There Has Not Been A War In South America For Fifty Years, And I Have Every Confidence That The Countries Of Central And South America Are Deeply In Earnest In The Maintenance Of Peace.

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.

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.

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.

Public Opinion Shapes Our Destinies And Guides The Progress Of Human Affairs.

Each One Of These Treaties Is A Step For The Maintenance Of Peace, An Additional Guarantee Against War. It Is Through Such Machinery That The Disputes Between Nations Will Be Settled And War Prevented.

I Regret Very Much To Hear So Many People, Many Of My Own Countrymen, Predicting War, Stating That Europe Is Preparing And Arming For Such A Conflict.

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.

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.