Commendable quotes.

"The coming of a world government is longed for by all the worst and distorted elements. This state ... would banish all national loyalties. In it, no acknowledgement would be made of the authority of a father over his children, or of God over human society. If these ideas are put into practice, there will inevitably follow an unheard-of reign of terror."

Pope Benedict XV, July 25, 1920

"[Because the UN would be given authority] to send our boys all over the earth, I cannot support the Charter. I believe it is fraught with danger to the American people, and to American institutions."

North Dakota Senator William Langer, July 28, 1945, as he prepared to vote against U.S. entry into the United Nations

"Not only does the Charter Organization not prevent future wars, but it makes it practically certain that we shall have future wars, and as to such wars it takes from us the power to declare them, to choose the side on which we shall fight, to determine what forces and military equipment we shall use in the war, and to control and command our sons who do the fighting."

Veteran State Department official J. Reuben Clark, November 20, 1945

"When the [February 1945] Yalta conference had ended, the Communists prepared to support the United Nations Charter which was to be adopted at the San Francisco conference to be held in May and June 1945. For this I organized a corps of speakers [who] spoke of the need for world unity."