PROPONENTS OF WORLD Federation and World GOVERNMENT

 “..The third dream was a world-union forming the outer basis of a fairer, brighter and nobler life for all mankind. That unification of the human world is under way; there is an imperfect initiation organised but struggling against tremendous difficulties. But the momentum is there and it must inevitably increase and conquer. Here too India has begun to play a prominent part and, if she can develop that larger statesmanship which is not limited by the present facts and immediate possibilities but looks into the future and brings it nearer, her presence may make all the difference between a slow and timid and a bold and swift development. " 

 Philosopher and Visionary 

“If I can get freedom for India now […] empire idea dissolves and world state takes its place, in which all the states of the world are free and equal, no state has its military. There may be a world police to keep order in the absence of universal belief in non-violence.”

Letter to Maurice Frydman  (July 28, 1942) 

Leader of Indian Freedom Movement, Activist, politician, 5 times Nobel nominated 

" I have long believed the only way peace can be achieved is through World Government. "

“I have no doubt in my mind that the World Government must and will come, for there is no other remedy for the world’s sickness. It can be an extension of the federal principle, a growth of the idea underlying the United Nations, giving each national unit freedom to fashion its destiny according to its genius, but subject always to the basic covenant of the world Government.”

-Former Prime Minister of India

"The human race will cease to exist unless a world government capable of enforcing world law is established by peaceful means. ... The choice is indeed between one world or none." 

-Scientist, Nobel Prize winner 1921

"Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful."

  -Former British Prime Minister.

" Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities now are world government or death. "

-Author, Nobel Prize winner 1950

"Our ideal is a world community of states with political systems and foreign policies based on law."

" There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government "

- Former Soviet General Secretary, Politician President of USSR

" I do feel that some minimum of global government to abolish war, to cope with pollution, is absolutely necessary "

— Historian, UK philosopher

" As citizens of the human commonwealth...we have the right to demand that nations submit to law among themselves, just as they require that citizens submit to law inside nations. ".

" The only security for Americans today, or for any people, is in the creation of a system of world order that enables nations to retain sovereignty over their own cultures and institutions, but that creates a workable authority for regulating the behavior of nations in their relationships with one another."

 -President, World Federalist Association, journalist, author

" I am convinced that the Great Framer of the World will so develop it that it becomes one nation, so that armies and navies are no longer necessary . . . . I believe at some future day, the nations of earth will agree on some sort of congress...whose decisions will be as binding as the decisions of our Supreme Court are upon us. "                                                -Former President , USA 1869-1877 

 "The world no longer has a choice between force and law. If civilization is to survive, it must choose "the rule of law. "

— Politician (34th US President)

" It is obvious that no difficulty in the ways of a world government can match the danger of a world without it."                                

-  Author, The Great Rehearsal 

“The problems with the ocean, with the atmosphere, with the soil, with the population, with pollution, with anything you want to aim – do not distinguish among us! How then can we distinguish among ourselves? […] What we need is some sort of federal world government.”

‘Future For Humanity’ (Jan. 14, 1989)

 — Writer, Scientist

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

  - Renowned Actor and supporter of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth

“God bless this Earth Constitution”    

- Assistant Secretary General of the UN for 38 years and supporter of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

"I am deeply sympathetic with your campaign for world government. I have come to see that the geographical oneness of our world and the potential destructiveness of modern weapons of war make it necessary for us to move in the direction of a world government if we are to survive. There can hardly be any gainsaying of the fact that war is now obsolete as a way of dealing with world problems. It can only lead to mutual annihilation.

I am not unmindful of the fact that there are many practical problems involved in the whole idea of world government, but in spite of this we must continue to work in this direction. Certainly, world government is the ideal toward which men of goodwill should work passionately and unrelentingly. So I want you to know that I am deeply concerned about what you are seeking to do. While my many responsibilities in the South at this time will not allow me the time to be of any assistance to you, I can at least say that you have my moral support."

(In his reply to Miss Tracy D. Mygatt dated August 8, 1959)

Activist, Nobel Prize winner 1964

 “I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.” 

Greek Philosopher

“[As long as] the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued but never attained – everywhere is war.”

War (1976) based on Haile Selassie’s address to the UN  (1963)

“Today the universal common good poses problems of worldwide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of a public authority […] which is in a position to operate in an effective manner on a world-wide basis. The moral order itself, therefore, demands that such a form of public authority be established.”

‘Pacem in Terris’ Encyclical  (1963)

Religious Leader (Catholic Pope)

“A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient means of social justice to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.”

The Outline of History  (1920)

Writer, Scientist

"We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapons"

"Never have nations of the world had so much to lose or so much to gain. Together we shall save our Planet or together we shall perish in flames."

Politician, 35th US President

" We must establish a rule of law, a world rule of law. We have to realize that the world needs policemen who serve the interests of all mankind. "

Former US attorney general, once a supporter of the Earth Constitution and WCPA

" All mankind would be grateful for all time to the statesman who could bring about a new structure of international society."

Politician, 26th US President

"In this closing address I want to advance ideas which,I believe, are essential to the achievement of our ultimate goal, the elimination of all war; ideas which the polite among you may say are very ambitious, and others will call Utopian. What 1 have in mind - and I will spell it out straight away - is the idea of a Federal World Government." 

"The radical change that I propose is the creation of a federal world government, with an international 

framework, which would include legislative power and a police force to ensure security to all its members; 

special organs would deal with requests for recognition by ethnic groups, etc., and protect the right of 

minorities in any of its federal components." 

1995 Nobel Peace Laureate

"There is, and will be, an indispensable role for the United Nations, not only in peacekeeping and humanitarian emergencies, but in bringing the nations together to fashion strategies for the decisive global problems of the next century. Of course the organization needs reform and streamlining and strengthening. Of course the technique of peacekeeping is to some extent outmoded and needs to be developed and supplemented to deal with a different and more complex range of tasks. These are positive challenges which cannot be met by a basically negative approach.....The U.N. Charter is the distillation of the lessons of the two greatest disasters ever to afflict the human race. For the first time in 50 years there seems to be a serious effort to abandon the Charter and the organization set up to give it reality. The ostriches and the flat earthers are going too far. It is time to call a halt."

 Sir Brian Urquhart, who recently retired as Scholar in  Residence at the Ford Foundation, published this article  in the Winter/Spring 1996 issue of The Brown Journal of  World Affairs.  

" The only basis for a peace system is a pooling of sovereignty for supranational purposes, that is the creation of a common nationhood, above but entirely separate from the diverse local nationhoods. "

 Marquis of Lothian 

" 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. "

 -, Actress   

" 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"

Former  U.N. Representative for U.S.A

“The natural resources of the world belong to each and every one of us. So instead of trying to fight poverty at the superficial level we should go to the root causes and demand to be citizens of the world, with one world parliament, Government and Earth Constitution” 

Global Justice: a Religious Perspective  (2017)  

" Who can limit the extent to which the federative principal may operate effectively?"

Former President ,USA

 World Federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order. ..The head of their program -- a world under law -- is realistic and attainable.

-Former U.N. Secretary-General 

" If the rule of law is to govern the community of states and protect it against violations of the international public order, it can only be satisfactorily established by the promulgation of an international penal code and by the permanent functioning of an international criminal jurisdiction."
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-Former President of Panama 

"  Many of these proposals may appear unpatriotic or even treasonous to those who identify being patriotic with the worship of American military power… If patriotism is an active concern for one’s freedom, welfare and survival of one’s people, there is no patriotic duty more immediate than the abolition of war as a national right and institution."
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-President of the United World Federalists

" We have nothing to lose except everything. So let's go ahead. This is the wager of our generation. If we are to fail, it is better, in any case, to have stood on the side of those who choose life than on the side of those who are destroying it."

- Author  Philosopher, author, Nobel Prize winner 1957

" It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for us to get along in the republic of the United States." 

 33rd U.S. President, USA

"I truly believe that historians of the future will look back upon this decade as the key turning point when the world conceived of itself for the first time as a truly global civilization."
 

Former Vice President ,USA