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Our Country, If That Is What We Want, Can Now Permanently Radiate Love, Understanding, The Power Of The Spirit And Of Ideas. It Is Precisely This Glow That We Can Offer As Our Specific Contribution To International Politics.

It Cannot Suffice To Invent New Machines, New Regulations, New Institutions. It Is Necessary To Change And Improve Our Understanding Of The True Purpose Of What We Are And What We Do In The World. Only Such A New Understanding Will Allow Us To Develop New Models Of Behavior, New Scales Of Values And Goals, And Thereby Invest The Global Regulations, Treaties And Institutions With A New Spirit And Meaning.

Courage Means Going Against Majority Opinion In The Name Of The Truth.

The Law Is Only One Of Several Imperfect And More Or Less External Ways Of Defending What Is Better In Life Against What Is Worse. By Itself, The Law Can Never Create Anything Better. Establishing Respect For The Law Does Not Automatically Ensure A Better Life For That, After All, Is A Job For People And Not For Laws And Institutions.

A State That Denies Its Citizens Their Basic Rights Becomes A Danger To Its Neighbors As Well: Internal Arbitrary Rule Will Be Reflected In Arbitrary External Relations. The Suppression Of Public Opinion, The Abolition Of Public Competition For Power And Its Public Exercise Opens The Way For The State Power To Arm Itself In Any Way It Sees Fit.... A State That Does Not Hesitate To Lie To Its Own People Will Not Hesitate To Lie To Other States.