Ed Davey Quotes

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

No nation can go to war now against another nation without going to war against all humanity. The world has become a family

The day is coming when no single nation, however powerful, can undertake by itself to keep the peace outside its borders.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

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.

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

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

Multilateralism may be little more than a polite way of camouflaging what is in practice unilateralism with allies.

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

World government is a premature concept at this stage. We are moving more and more into supernational arrangements, but it is too early still.

Only by carrying forward such a program with common determination and united national support, can we expect, in the long range of the future, to avoid becoming victims of destructive forces of international anarchy which in the absence of organized international relations will rule the world. By the procedure of cooperation with other nations likewise intent upon security, we can and will remain masters of our own fate.

…though the American government did much to encourage the organs of the League, the fact that it stood aside, sharing neither the rights nor the duties of the League powers, was a fatal handicap to joint action.

No nation can build a safer, better world alone.

NATO is indispensable to America's national security.

We'll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.

A strong, unwavering relationship between the U.S. and its allies Japan and South Korea is necessary for the national and economic security of all three countries.

The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.

There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.

From Nato to the U.N. and the E.U., the generation that lived through the first half of the 20th century knew they needed to create a new world order. An order with rules and institutions which, however imperfect, could act both as constraints on individual countries going rogue and as catalysts for co-operation for mutual benefit.

Our freedom, our prosperity and our security depend on a proper respect for the fortune of our neighbours, allies and old friends.