20th century Quote by Norman Davies

The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationalism of member states, and it did…

— Norman Davies

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

— John Boyd Orr

In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such…

— Strobe Talbott

The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

From protecting consumers to establishing common standards and promoting free trade, the E.U. plays a central role. And nation states alone cannot tackle common…

— David Lammy

Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into…

— Jeremy Corbyn

In 1807, Britain led the way in abolishing the global slave trade. In 2015, Theresa May built on that historic achievement with another fine…

— Nick Boles

The E.U. is a common platform where we come together and agree to do certain things. But the E.U. is never going to take…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to…

— Ben Klassen

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that…

— Barack Obama

. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle…

— John Adams

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. When I contemplate the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville