Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The Labour Party in Perspective (Left Book Club, 1937), p. 145.
1930s
On National Socialism and World Relations http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler1.htm, speech in the German Reichstag (January 30, 1937). German translation published by H. Müller & Sohn in Berlin. <br class="br">1930s
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The Labour Party in Perspective (Left Book Club, 1937), p. 145.
1930s
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
Declaration of INTERdependence (1945)
Charles Rosen (1927–2012) American pianist and writer on music
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 7 : Chopin: From the Miniature Genre to the Sublime Style
Aleksandr Zinovyev (1922–2006) Russian writer
On the Social State of Marxism (1978)
Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) American broadcast journalist
UN Address (1999)
Context: I suppose I'm preaching to the choir here. So let's not talk generalities but focus tonight on a few specifics of what the leadership of the World Federalist Movement believe must be done now to advance the rule of world law.
For starters, we can draw on the wisdom of the framers of the US Constitution in 1787. The differences among the American states then were as bitter as differences among the nation-states in the world today.
In their almost miraculous insight, the founders of our country invented "federalism," a concept that is rooted in the rights of the individual. Our federal system guarantees a maximum of freedom but provides it in a framework of law and justice.
Our forefathers believed that the closer the laws are to the people, the better. Cities legislate on local matters; states make decisions on matters within their borders; and the national government deals with issues that transcend the states, such as interstate commerce and foreign relations. That is federalism.
Today we must develop federal structures on a global level. We need a system of enforceable world law — a democratic federal world government — to deal with world problems.
Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist
Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry, 1951, p. 6 as cited in: Stewart L. Tubbs, Robert M. Carter (1978) Shared Experiences in Human Communication. p. 1
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Supreme Court Justice
Dissent, International News Service v. Associated Press (1918).
Judicial opinions