Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb. Reinhold Niebuhr
The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations. Arthur Henderson
Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis. Franz Beckenbauer
Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations. Giorgio Napolitano