QUOTES FOR/AGAINST EMPIRE

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"Our position is that whatever grievances a nation may have, however objectionable
it finds the status quo, aggressive warfare is an illegal means for settling those
grievances or for altering those conditions." : Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson.
American prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, in his opening statement to the tribunal

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Crime Against Peace: A basic provision of the Charter is that to plan, prepare,
initiate or wage a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties,
agreements, and assurances, or to conspire or participate in a common plan to do
so is a crime: Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson
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"It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little
need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy ... The Roman
Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States." : Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled
and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion,
no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government
by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." : Woodrow Wilson