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* The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.
-- Susette LaFlesche

* “We want harmonious development, ... We should work together for more democratic and law-based international relations, and a harmonious environment in which countries respect one another, treat one another as equals, and different cultures can emulate and interchange with each other.”
-- Li Zhaoxing

Drawing from the tragic lessons of nuclear atrocities experienced by the Indigenous Peoples we recognize that the testing, development and use of nuclear weapons is a crime against all humanitarian law…
-- Hilda Lini

* “The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”
-- John Locke

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
-- John Locke

* “If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.”
-- Belva Ann Lockwood

“I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.”
-- Belva Ann Lockwood

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
-- James Madison

* I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.
-- Ramon Magsaysay

* "Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy."
-- Thurgood Marshall

"Liberty is the right to do as the law permits."
-- Montesquieu French jurist (1689-1755)

"If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them -- if there is a history."
-- Robert Muller

"I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government."
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
-- John B. Orr

We are privileged to have the opportunity of contributing to the achievement of the goal of the abolition of war and its replacement by world law. I am confident that we shall succeed in this great task; that the world community will thereby be freed not only from the suffering caused by war but also through the better use of the earth's resources, of the discoveries of scientists, and of the efforts of mankind, from hunger, disease, illiteracy, and fear; and that we shall in the course of time be enabled to build a world characterized by economic, political, and social justice for all human beings and a culture worthy of man's intelligence.
-- Linus Pauling


"Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it."
-- William Penn

* “Kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that. That’s why I sing these songs. That’s why I tell these stories, dammit. No root, no fruit!”
-- Utah Phillips


When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
-- Pope John Paul II

The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order."
-- Pope John Paul II

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