World Federalism Quotes

“If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.”

“The nation-state is too big for the small problems and too small for the big problems.”

“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”

“We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapons.”

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“It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.”

“There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.”

“I am an uncompromising pacifist... I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.”

“In a very real sense, the world no longer has a choice between force and law. If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.”

“There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.”

“Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.”

“Future peace, security and ordered progress of the world demand a world federation of free nations, and on no other basis can the problems of the world be solved.”

“If the matter is presented clearly, it will not be hard to get people to agree that protective institutions are necessary, both on a regional and on a world-wide scale.”

“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.”

“Mankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government. With all my heart, I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war, and inhumanity.”

“Our own land and our own flag cannot be replaced by any other land or any other flag. But you can join with other nations, under a joint flag, to accomplish something good for the world that you cannot accomplish alone.”

“The Republic is the only alternative to the blind, elemental, erratic, uncontrolled, divisive and polarizing globalization forces. We need political institutions effective in the planetary scale equivalent to that of transnational powers.”

“A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient means of social justice to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.”

“World government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest, in its only, sense, the patriotism of men who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.”

“The new miracles of science and technology enable us at last to bring our world some measure of unity; if our generation does not use them for construction, they will be misused to destroy it and all its slowly-won civilization of the past in a new and terrible warfare.”