Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.

The best critical consideration of the inherent weakness of a federation of states in which the law of the federation has to be enforced on the states who are its members is contained in the Federalist Papers.

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

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.

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