Early in life, as a witness to the limitless tragedy of World War I, I felt grow in me a determination to act, to work with others to influence the course of history and not supinely to accept what, in the absence of will and action, might be the world's fate. … For almost five decades I have played some role in the affairs of state, working with others to bend what otherwise might have been called the "inevitable trends of history."
Some of the outcomes were wholly satisfactory, some marginally successful, and some were failures — but, on the whole, they were better, I think, than would otherwise have come about.
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