Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes

World government will come, but we do not know the date.

And this is the best chance to begin to establish the New World Order.

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

We shall have world government whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World government will be achieved by conquest or consent.

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a New World Order - can emerge. . . Now, we can see a New World Order coming into view. A world in which there is a very real prospect for a New World Order. . .A world where the United Nations, freed from a Cold War stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders.

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.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

America has saved the world most of the time, but messed it up a couple of times.

A world authority and an eventual world state are not just desirable in the name of brotherhood, they are necessary for survival.

If local civil government is necessary for local civil peace, then world civil government is necessary for world peace.

As complicated and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if the European Union would fail or decompose, or other members left, the U.S. would have a more difficult role to play in the world.

U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.

I think that America is the glue that holds the world together.

My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

My main concern is with the world order

...for the welfare of the whole world and the new world order.

We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.

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

In the past, a blow to the international system's strongest power would have been welcomed by its rivals. In the wake of September 11, however, every significant government in the world declared its support for the United States.

For years now, long before I became House majority leader, I have been passionate about foreign affairs because I believe that anyone who leads in Washington must appreciate the significance of America's role in providing for global security and prosperity.

The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

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

The United States will continue to be number one, and I do not see any country or group of countries taking the United States' place in providing global public goods that underpin security and prosperity. The United States functions as the world's de facto government.