Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on. We do need to intervene, to improve political and economic conditions inside countries that have bad governments, where people are suffering. One way of doing this, without violating sovereignty, is through constructive actions - reinforcements and incentives for countries that are moving in the right direction, toward an open society, a market economy, et cetera. That is what I'm advocating. I'm advocating preventive action of a constructive nature. And I would use military force only as the very last resort, when nothing else works.

I find the idea that you can introduce democracy by military force a very quaint idea. Moreover, if I wanted to choose a testing ground for doing it, Iraq woul…

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My position is that America is great precisely because it is an open society, and an open society recognizes that nobody is the ultimate arbiter - and that we …

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government …

I will rule them by fixed laws so that rest and happiness shall prevail in the world.

Man is not the enemy of man but through the medium of a false system of government.