• 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 with a monopoly of serious armed force.

    Bertrand Russell: 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 with a monopoly of serious armed force.
    David Herbert Lawrence, Bertrand Russell (1948). “Letters to Bertrand Russell”