It is, for instance, now perhaps for the first time, in a thoroughgoing way, within sight in this Kingdom.
The dream of the American Fathers, therefore, is not yet come true.
They fought against organized Privilege exerted from over the sea.
In principle it is the same fight that we have made, in our domestic field, during recent decades.

Now the same fight has come on a far larger scale than men ever dreamed of before.
It isn't, therefore, for merely doctrinal reasons that we are concerned for the spread of democracy nor merely because a democracy is the only scheme of organization yet wrought out that keeps the door of opportunity open and invites all men to their fullest development.

But we are interested in it because under no other system can the world be made an even reasonably safe place to live in.

For only autocracies wage aggressive wars.

Aggressive autocracies, especially military autocracies, must be softened down by peace (and they have never been so softened) or destroyed by war.