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.

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

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.

Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

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.