t must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things. Niccolo Machiavelli, 1446-1507
The peace conference has assembled. It will make the most momentous decisions in history, and upon these decisions will rest the stability of the new world order and the future peace of the world. M C Alexander, Executive Secretary of the American Association for International Conciliation, subscription letter 1919
The world can never again be as it has been. The house has collapsed, and its structure is discredited. In this period of reconstruction it is imperative that men should know what are the defective principles of the old order that must be kept out, and what are the true principles that should be built in as the very foundations of the house that is to be? What kind of world order do we want? What are the principles and ideals that should guide us in our planning? What are the immediate things in our efforts, and what are the ultimate ends? What are the forces and factors on which we may count for aid and inspiration? These are questions of first importance in this hour. Samuel Zane Batten, The New World Order, 1919
There must be a league of free nations, a federation of the world. In this direction several things may be noted: a) There must be a world parliament made up of representatives of the nations, to consider questions of common interest, to frame international laws, and to interpret world justice. ibid.
The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self-created screen ... At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties. John F Hylan, New York City Mayor, 1922
The only possibilities are now world government or death. Bertrand Russell, cited Tom Hudgens, Let’s Abolish War
There are, however, two powerful forces opposed to such a policy: one is religion, the other is nationalism ... A scientific world society cannot be stable unless there is a world government. Bertrand Russell
World Federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a New World Order ... The heart of their program – a world under law – is realistic and attainable. U Thant, cited Tom Hudgens, Let’s Abolish War
If there are those who think we are to jump immediately into a New World Order, actuated by complete understanding and brotherly love, they are doomed to disappointment. If we are ever to approach that time, it will be after patient and persistent effort of long duration. The present international situation of mistrust and fear can only be corrected by a formula of equal status, continuously applied, to every phase of international contacts, until the cobwebs of the old order are brushed out of the minds of the people of all lands. Dr Augustus O Thomas, President of World Federation of Education Associations, August 1927, cited International Understanding: Agencies Educating for a New World 1931
It is not new, and it is not order. Franklin D Roosevelt
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centres has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson. Franklin D Roosevelt, 21st November 1933
We are at present working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world. Professor Arnold Toynbee, Institute for the Study of International Affairs in Copenhagen, June 1931
In the great struggle to evoke a westernised world socialism, contemporary governments must vanish. H G Wells, The New World Order, 1939
Countless people, from maharajas to millionaires, and from pukka sahibs to pretty ladies, will hate the New World Order, be rendered unhappy by frustration of their passions through its advent and will die protesting against it. ibid.
National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing a New World Order. Adolf Hitler
The creation of an authoritative world order is the ultimate aim toward which we must strive. Winston Churchill, cited George W Blount, Peace Through World Government
The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavour is taking place, an important plan, on which realisation we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind. Winston Churchill, 33rd degree Freemason
Nations must unite in a world government or perish. Charles de Gaulle, cited George W Blount, Peace Through World Government
There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1) To talk of blueprints for the future or building a world order is, if properly understood, suggestive, but it is also dangerous. Societies grow far more truly than they are built. A constitution for a New World Order is never like a blueprint for a skyscraper. Norman Thomas, What is Our Destiny? 1944
Mankind’s desire for peace can be realised only by the creation of a world government. Albert Einstein, cited George W Blount, Peace Through World Government p30
There is no salvation for civilisation, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government. Albert Einstein, cited Lawrence Abbott, World Federalism: What? Why? How? p20
In order to achieve the final aim - which is one world, and not two hostile worlds – such a partial world Government must never act as an alliance against the rest of the world. The only real step toward world government is world government itself. Albert Einstein, open letter to United Nations 1947
I have long believed the only way peace can be achieved is through world government. Jawaharal Nehru
World peace is impossible without world government. Mortimer Adler, A New Inquisition
In the first public declaration on the Jewish question since the outbreak of the war, Arthur Greenwood, member without portfolio in the British War Cabinet, assured the Jews of the United States that when victory was achieved an effort would be made to found a New World Order based on the ideals of ‘justice and peace’. The New York Times October 1940, New World Order Pledged to Jews
He [President Nixon] spoke of the talks as a beginning, saying nothing more about the prospects for future contacts and merely reiterating the belief he brought to China that both nations share an interest in peace and building a New World Order. The New York Times February 1972
At the old Inter-American Office in the Commerce Building here in Roosevelt's time, as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs under President Truman, as chief whip with Adlai Stevenson and Tom Finletter at the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco, Nelson Rockefeller was in the forefront of the struggle to establish not only an American system of political and economic security but a new world order. The New York Times February 1975
US President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev arrived yesterday on this Mediterranean island for a summit conference beginning today during which both hope to start the search for a New World Order. The New York Times 1st December 1989
If totalitarianism wins this conflict, the world will be ruled by tyrants, and individuals will be slaves. If democracy wins, the nations of the earth will be united in a commonwealth of free peoples, and individuals, wherever found, will be the sovereign units of the New World Order. The Declaration of the Federation of the World, produced by The Congress on World Federation, adopted by some US States 1940s
New World Order Needed for Peace: State Sovereignty Must Go, Declares Notre Dame Professor. The Tablet, Brooklyn March 1942
Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles tonight called for the early creation of an international organization of anti-Axis nations to control the world during the period between the armistice at the end of the present war and the setting up of a New World Order on a permanent basis. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 1942
The statement went on to say that the spiritual teachings of religion must become the foundation for the New World Order and that national sovereignty must be subordinate to the higher moral law of God. The American Institute of Judaism, cited The New York Times December 1942
He [John Foster Dulles] stated directly to me that he had every reason to believe that the Governor [Thomas E Dewey of New York] accepts his point of view and that he is personally convinced that this is the policy that he would promote with great vigor if elected. So it is fair to say that on the first round the Sphinx of Albany has established himself as a prima facie champion of a strong and definite new world order. Ralph W Page, The Philadelphia Bulletin 1944