Our enemies have adopted a theory which is the opposite of ours: they proclaim that victory is an end in itself, and justifies any method used to attain it. We cannot understand this; to us it seems clear that human welfare is the end in view for all communities of men, and that if victory for any one nation can only be achieved by ruining and corrupting human life, then we must do without victory. This will often mean that we must forgo the use of our physical superiority; we must treat peaceably with our neighbours though we have the power to end the discussion by brute force, we must keep our treaties, and respect the rights of small States; in short, in public as in private life, we must see that the weak do not suffer injustice from the strong; otherwise the world will be destroyed as a place for men to live in, and not even the strongest will have gained anything worth having.