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"We are 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."
Historian Arnold Toynbee, 1931
"If UNESCO [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization] is attacked on the grounds that it is helping to prepare the world's people for world government, then it is an error to burst forth with apologetic statements and denials. Let us face it: the job of UNESCO is to help create and promote the elements of world citizenship. When faced with such a 'charge,' let us by all means affirm it from the housetops."
Editorial in Saturday Review, March 23, 1953
"Two centuries ago our forefathers brought forth a new nation; now we must join with others to bring forth a new world order.... We call upon all nations to strengthen and sustain the United Nations and its specialized agencies, and other institutions of world order, and to broaden the jurisdiction of the World Court."
A Declaration of INTERdependence, October 25, 1975, endorsed by 124 members of the U.S. Congress, many of whom backed away from it when publicity about its subversive content reached the public
"[W]ithin the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century--citizen of the world--will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st."