Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-03-20 Mar 20, 2008The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.~ Franklin D. RooseveltMy vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.~ George Herbert Walker BushWe can see beyond the present shadow of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace in the post-war period.~ Richard Gephardt Mar 19, 2008...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that makes progress possible, lies in unification. For where unification has been able to establish unity of ideas it has usually ended in uniformity, paralysing the growth of new ideas. And where the unification has merely brought about an artificial or imposed unity, its irksomeness has led through discord to disruption.~ B. H. Liddell HartNever could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.~ Hilaire Belloc[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations.~ Rowan Gaither Mar 18, 2008The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.' ... Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.~ Lysander SpoonerResolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that it should be a fundamental objective of the foreign policy of the United States to support and strengthen the United Nations and to seek its development into a world federation ...with defined and limited powers adequate to preserve peace and prevent aggression through the enactment, interpretation, and enforcement of world law...~ House Concurrent Resolution 64...no nation which signs this [UN] Charter can justly maintain that any of its acts are its own business, or within its own domestic jurisdiction, if the security council says that these acts are a threat to the peace.~ William Carr Mar 17, 2008To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.~ Dr. G. Brock ChisolmThere are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.~ Bill ClintonEach State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution~ James Madison Mar 14, 2008The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.~ Benjamin DisraeliThe right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.~ Erwin N. GriswoldLet us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe... till we come to the hard bottom of rocks in place, which we can call reality.~ Henry David Thoreau Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print