International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples.
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Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.Henri La Fontaine
Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.
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