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John Boyd Orr

"Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival."

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"Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival."

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"While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years."

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"The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency."

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"Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction."
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"Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge."
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"Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago."
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"As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies."
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"There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty."
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"When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions."
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"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."
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"As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World."
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"Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace."
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