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The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. ”
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever. ”
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system. ”
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. ”
As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market. ”
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. ”
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. ”
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole. ”
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. ”
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. ”