"The rule of law in place of force,……" — Roger Nash Baldwin
"The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it."
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8 Quotes by Roger Nash Baldwin
Roger Nash Baldwin has 8 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
- I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to…
- I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom,…
- I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve…
- I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those…
- The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and…
- The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.