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Laws
are important. But they can only be effective
if the people know about the particular laws.
-- Waris Dirie
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“While
we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase
to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion
as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should
awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.”
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"It
is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world
government can match the danger of a world without
it."
--Carl Van Doren
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"World
federation is an ideal that will not die. More
and more people are coming to realize that peace
must be more than an interlude if we are to
survive; that peace is a produce of law and
order; that law is essential if the force of
arms is not to rule the world."
-- Justice
William O. Douglas
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There
is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes
to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation
founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.
Senator Dick Durbin
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"only
world law can assure progress towards a civilized
peaceful community."
-- Albert Einstein
"A
world government with powers adequate to guarantee
security is not a remote ideal for the distant
future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization
is to survive."
-- Albert Einstein
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"There
is no salvation for civilization, or even the human
race, other than the creation of a world government."
-- Albert Einstein
"With
all my heart I believe that the world's present system
of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war
and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure
progress towards a civilized peaceful community."
-- Albert Einstein
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"The
world no longer has a choice between force and
law; if civilization is to survive, it must
choose the rule of law."
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
There
can be no peace without law.
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
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The
clearest way to show what the rule of law means to
us in everyday life is to recall what has happened
when there is no rule of law.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"...
we have been warned by the power of modern weapons,
that peace may be the only climate possible for human
life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked
and respected by all nations, for without law, the
world promises only such meager justice as the pity
of the strong upon the weak."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Truth-telling
to Congress and the public is not disloyal in
America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty
officials owe to the Constitution, the rule
of law, and the sovereign public. It is a courageous,
patriotic, and effective way to serve our country.
The time to speak out is now.
-- Daniel Ellsberg
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"I
prefer law to war under all circumstances."
-- Benjamin
Ferencz, Nuremberg prosecutor
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