Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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.
The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
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.
I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.
We want laws to be applied predictably.
You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
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