We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Law is always better than war.
The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e.
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.