UN General Assembly
1946

We are not unaware that such codification is difficult. There can be no doubt, however, that the United Nations represents a great advance towards the realization of an idea which was formerly regarded as utopian but is now beginning to take shape: the idea of a world government which will take the place of the Security Council; of a world parliament which will take the place of our General Assembly; of an International Court of Justice having compulsory jurisdiction and of a world police which will constitute our executory force. This universal super-State should obviously have its organic law and its codes of justice and of ethics. Every nation, great or small, is strictly entitled to know in advance what is right and what is wrong in relations between peoples and between States. So long as we have not codified these essential principles, we shall not be able to say that law prevails in the world, for there is no true law without declared standards.