Arthur Henderson Quotes

... assertive multilateralism.

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

Multilateralism is the democracy of international society.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

I'm not a multilateralist against anybody. I'm a multilateralist because I believe in a multilateral order.

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate as to subject the action, and sometimes even the internal affairs, of each to surveillance and intervention on the part of all the others.

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.