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"When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law."
"Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace."
"During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent."
"Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge."
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