“World Government is coming, in fact, it is inevitable. No arguments for or against it can change that fact.”
“It will be wish and purpose that the processes of peace, when they are begun, shall be absolutely open and that they shall involve and permit henceforth no secret understandings of any kind… possible for every nation whose purposes are consistent with justice and the peace of the world to a vow nor or at any other time the objects it has in view.”
“I believe at some future day, the nations of earth will agree on some sort of congress which will take cognizance of international questions of difficulty and whose decisions will be as binding as the decisions of the Supreme Court are upon us.”
“Just as nature wisely separates nations, which the will of every state, sanctioned by the principals of international law, would gladly unite by artifice or force, nations which could not have secured themselves against violence and war by means of the law of world citizenship unite because of mutual interest.”
“…the human race is at its best state when, both in its movements, and in regard to those who move it, it is regulated by a single Prince, as by the single movement of heaven, and by one law, as by the single motion. Therefore it is evidently necessary for the welfare of the world for there to be a Monarchy, or single Princedom, which men call empire…”
“…major superpowers in various epochs have wielded international power and influence. In the western world we often hear of the vast and past world empires like Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome acting as forerunners of more recent kingdoms, empires or nations like Europe and the Anglo Saxon world… This rise and fall of various hegemonic political configurations develop a drama, often written in blood, of the ebb and flow in the sea of human history.”
“We the people of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war … in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, … have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims…”
“The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations. Then if we are forced into war, it will be because there has been no way to prevent it through negotiation and the mobilization of world opinion. In which case we should have the voluntary support of many nations, which is far better than the decision of one nation alone, or even a few nations.”
“There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. The innovator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old system and only lukewarm defenders by those who would gain by the new system.”
I. “Open covenants of peace, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed…
II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war…
III. The removal of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.”
“… We stand together until the end. For such arrangements and covenants we are willing to fight and to continue to fight until they are achieved; but only because we wish the right to prevail and desire a just and stable peace… Unless this principle be made its foundation no part of the structure of international justice can stand…”
“Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.”
“A world effectively controlled by the United Nations is on in which ‘world government’ would come about through the establishment of supranational institutions, characterized by mandatory universal membership and some ability to employ physical force… [But] if the communist dynamic was greatly abated, the West might lose whatever incentive it has for world government.”
Bretton Woods: Birth of a Monetary System