| | Author | Date | Quote | | Doren, Carl Van | 1885-1950 | t is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it. |
| Douglas, Michael | | Ensuring bio-diversity and ending the destruction of thousands of species; reversing the depletion of fishing stocks; controlling ocean dumping; preventing ozone depletion, halting global warming; controlling and eliminating terrorism and weapons of mass destruction; fighting pandemic diseases; ending the tragedy of crushing poverty and lack of clean drinking water; and addressing crises arising from failed states. No nation or even a small group of nations can succeed in addressing these issues alone. |
| Douglas, William O. | 1898-1980 | World federalism is an idea that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a product of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world. |
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr | | We shall live together as brothers or die together as fools. |
| Einstein, Albert | 1879-1955 | If one day my General Theory of Relativity will be disproved and rejected by science the French would regard me as German and the Germans would regard me as a Jew. If, however, it will be proved true and generally accepted, The Germans will regard me as a German and the French as a citizen of the world. |
| Einstein, Albert | 1945 | As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government. |
| Einsten, Albert | 1879-1955 | I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. |
| Eisenhower, Dwight | 1890-1969 | Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children....This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from an iron cross. |
| Eisenhower, Dwight | 1890-1969 | The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law…"... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak. |
| Foege, Bill | 2005 | We are all global citizens in fact, but our challenge is to play the part fully. For we will never get the order to halt. |
| Forster, Edward M. | 1879-1970 | If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I would have the guts to betray my country. |
| Garrison, William Lloyd | 1805-1879 | My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. |
| Georgia Lloyd, Edith Wynner and E.P. Dutton | 1943 | Generalities about the beauties of peace, the horrors of war, and the need for international cooperation are easily stated. Virtually everyone will agree with these platitudes. Yet preparations for war will continue in periods of peace, wars will persist in being horrible, and international cooperation will remain a favorite subject of postwar planning, unless words lead finally to action. |
| Georgia Lloyd, Edith Wynner and E.P. Dutton | 1943 | A specific plan for world government is to international cooperation what a model of the first airplane was to man's desire to fly. The model helped people visualize what a flying-machine would be like and served as an object for further experimentation and improv |
| Gibran, Khalil | 1883-1931 | Planet Earth is our Home. Humanity is our Family. |
| Gorbachev, Mikhail | 1931- | On today’s agenda is not just a union of democratic states, but also a democratically organized world community. An awareness of the need for some kind of global government is gaining ground, one in which all members of the world community would take part. |
| Granoff, Jonathan | | I suggest that the same analysis that places a duty on a state to protect its citizens from horrific violence also places a duty on the State to address quiet assaults on life caused by environmental factors. The fact that to address environmental factors requires multilateral cooperation does not detract from the sovereignty of each state but provides the only avenue available for each state to exercise its core function to protect its citizens. Thus, the core duty of the sovereign state to protect is not diminished but in fact fulfilled by strengthening multilateral institutions like the UN. |
| Harris, Errol E. | 1999 | As long as national sovereign states exist, and their sovereign independence is preserved and upheld, any so-called global governance is a sham, and among independent sovereigns neither security nor the rule of law can be maintained. |
| Harris, Lee | 2003 | There is only one nonarbitrary point at which such a line may be drawn, and that is at the community of all the human beings on the planet. This is the only group that cannot be challenged as being merely accidental in the sense that you might have been born into one nation rather than another, or one sect rather than another, or one tribe rather than another. In other words, while we are accidentally white or black, Christian or Muslim, Anglophone or Francophone, Indian or Swiss, we are all essentially and necessarily human beings, and this is something that remains no matter how much we abstract from the contingencies of our incidentality. |
| Havel, Vaclav | 1936- | The UN should transform itself from a large community of governments, diplomats and officials into a joint institution for each inhabitant of this planet in order that, on the authority of the people, it looks for ways toward a lasting well-being of the humanity and toward a genuine quality of life. Such a UN would rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population. These two bodies would create and guarantee global legislation. |
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