Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is now needed is to infuse into international law the finest traditions of all the great legal systems of the world...
...here the universities of the world can be of tremendous help in gathering and sifting and harmonizing them into a universal law. A reliable framework of law grounded in the general principles recognized by civilized nations is of crucial importance in all plans for rapid economic development around the earth. Economic progress has always been accompanied by a reliable legal framework...
...Law is not a concrete pillbox in which the status quo is armed and entrenched. On the contrary, a single role of law, the sanctity of contract, has been the vehicle for more explosive and extensive economic change in the world than any other factor. The principle that men must keep bargains is a fundamental of every great legal system the world has ever known...
...final thought on the rule of law between nations: we will all have to remind ourselves that under this system of law, one will sometimes lose as well as win. But nations can endure and accept an adverse decision rendered by competent and impartial tribunals...
...good reason: if an international controversy leads to armed conflict, everyone loses; if armed conflict is avoided, everyone wins. It is better to lose a point now and then in an international tribunal and gain a world in which everyone lives at peace under a rule of law...