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"Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can."
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"Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure."
"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."
"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."
"After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed."
"Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago."
"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."
"In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without."
"We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible."
"Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival."
"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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