Planet in Peril Quotable Quotes
Peace is a product of law and order; law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world. U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive. Albert Einstein
Planet in Peril Quotable Quotes
We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapons. John F. Kennedy
… the emergency committee of atomic scientists, having explored for two years all means other than world government for making responsible the control of atomic energy effective [meaning nuclear weapons, really, and by implication, all weapons of mass destruction], has become convinced that no other method than world government can be expected to prove effective, and that the attainment of world government is therefore the most urgent problem now facing mankind. 1948 UN Resolution
Planet in Peril Quotable Quotes
The abolition of war is no longer an ethical question to be pondered solely by learned philosophers and ecclesiastics, but a hard core one for the decision of the masses whose survival is the issue. Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream-that it is the vague imagining of a visionary. But we must go on or we will go under. We must have new thoughts, new ideas, new concepts. We must break out of the straightjacket of the past. We must have sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal wish for peace-which is rapidly becoming a necessity-into actuality. General Douglas MacArthur
Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of [democratic] world government are called impractical dreamers. Those “impractical dreamers” are entitled to ask, “What is so practical about war?” Walter Cronkite
Planet in Peril Quotable Quotes
World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order. The heart of their program-a world under law-is realistic and attainable. UN Secretary General U Thant
Our goals are the same as those of the UN’s founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where the rule of law would prevail, where human rights were honored, where development would blossom, where conflict would give way to freedom from violence. Ronald Reagan in his address to the UN General Assembly, September 26, 1983
Planet in Peril Quotable Quotes
It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you to get along in the republic of the United States. [If] Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over the water in the Arkansas river they don’t call out the national guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring suit in the Supreme Court of the United States and abide by the decision. There isn’t a reason in the world why we can’t do that internationally. Harry S. Truman
The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world … democracy—civilization itself—is at stake. Walter Cronkite
