I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business.
I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
I should like to help everyone - if possible -
Jew, Gentile - black man - white.
We all want to help one another.
Human beings are like that.
We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.
In this world there is room for everyone.
And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls,
Has barricaded the world with hate
Has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical.
Our cleverness, hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery we need humanity.
More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost...
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men
- Cries out for universal brotherhood -
For the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world
Greed has poisoned men's souls
Soldiers! don't give yourselves to brutes
Men who despise you
Enslave you
Who regiment your lives
Tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel!
Who drill you, diet you
Treat you like cattle
Use you as cannon fodder
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men
Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!
You are not machines!
You are not cattle!
You are men!
You have the love of humanity in your hearts!
You don't hate!
Only the unloved hate
The unloved and the unnatural!
Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man"
Not one man nor a group of men
But in all men!
In you!
You, the people have the power
The power to create machines.
The power to create happiness!
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful
To make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then in the name of democracy
Let us use that power
Let us all unite.