Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

James T. Shotwell

Canadian-born American Historian, Diplomat, Scholar

"No international Eighteenth Amendment will get rid of war or the instruments of war until civilization finds a way for accomplishing what war has done in the past. Simply to prohibit war is not going to get rid of it. Wars must be anticipated and the causes got rid of by a readiness to accept peaceful means of settlement."

"Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom."