Paul D. Lindstrom Quotes

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.

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

The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

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

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

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

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.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

The international body must have the institutions and powers it needs to do what it is created to do; in other words it must be boldly and openly set up as a super-state on a level above the national sovereignties, and that, in turn, means that the Member States must have accepted in advance as much limitation and subordination of their particular sovereignties as this superior sovereign power requires.

The world state is inherent in the United Nations as an oak tree is in an acorn.

This organization [the United Nations] is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

No one should abandon his county's interest upon entering the portals of the United Nations.

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

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

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.

…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.

The United Nations is really the League of Nations 2.0

The United Nations’ founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America’s consent the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

It [the UN] has given uniquely valuable services in many places where violence threatened. It is the only real world forum where we have the opportunity for international presentation and rebuttal…. The United Nation deserves our continued firm support.

The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.