Strobe Talbott Quotes

A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty.

Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.

How I learned to love 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.

Thus may be envisioned a United States of the World. Ultimately, it will surely come.

Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable... There's going to be conflict, coercion and consensus. That's part of what will be required as we give birth to the first global civilization.

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.

The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

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

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

The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.

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.

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

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.

For virtually every area of public policy there is a globalist proposal, consistent with the overall objective of reducing individual nation-state autonomy, particularly that of the United States?

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

No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race.

Unification of the whole of mankind is the hall-mark of the stage which human society is now approaching. Unity of family, of tribe, of city-state, and nation have been successively attempted and fully established. World unity is the goal towards which a harassed humanity is striving. Nation-building has come to an end. The anarchy inherent in state sovereignty is moving towards a climax. A world, growing to maturity, must abandon this fetish, recognize the oneness and wholeness of human relationships, and establish once for all the machinery that can best incarnate this fundamental principle of its life. .

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.

It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.

The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".