Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which we are to be loyal must be created.

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.