Quotations

"There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government."
–Albert Einstein"...

"The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law."
–President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive."
–Albert Einstein

"Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up...the prospects for peace and human progress are dark.... If...it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share."
–Winston Churchill

"We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapons"
–President John F. Kennedy

"There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government."
–Mikhail Gorbachev


"The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order."
–Pope John Paul II

"World federalism is an idea that will not die.More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a product of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world."
–U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

"We shall live together as brothers or die together as fools"
–Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"... the emergency committee of atomic scientists, having explored for two years all means other than world government for making responsible the control of atomic energy, has become convinced that no other method than world government can be expected to prove effective, and that the attainment of world government is therefore the most urgent problem now facing mankind."
–1948 Resolution

"The abolition of war is no longer an ethical question to be pondered solely by learned philosophers and ecclesiastics, but a hard core one for the decision of the masses whose survival is the issue. Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream - that it is the vague imagining of a visionary. But we must go on or we will go under ... We must have new thoughts, new ideas, new concepts. We must break out of the straightjacket of the past. We must sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal wish for peace–which is rapidly becoming a necessity–into actuality."
–General Douglas MacArthur, July 5, 1961

"World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order. The heart of their program - a world under law - is realistic and attainable."
–U.N. Secretary General U Thant

"It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it."
–Carl Van Doren

"A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice to ensure health, educaion, and a rough equality of opportunity, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open up a new phase in human history."
–H.G. Wells