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."

Former Communist Party official Dr. Bella Dodd in her 1954 book, School of Darkness

"The United Nations is preparing a series of treaties which operate as domestic legislation, affecting our citizens in matters on which our Constitution does not permit even the Federal Government to legislate. They would abolish our Bill of Rights and replace it with a body of state-granted privileges and duties modeled exactly upon the Soviet constitution."

Indiana Senator William Jenner, February 23, 1954

"You don't reform the rats and fleas that spread the bubonic plague, you wipe 'em out. The guiltily responsible personnel of the United Nations are far worse than those rats and fleas for two reasons: First, they have already caused mankind more suffering; and second, they know what they are doing, while the rats and fleas do not."

John Birch Society Founder Robert Welch, in his organization's January 1962 Bulletin

"I agree with Dean Russell of Rockford College that 'we American people sponsored and endorsed a completely alien concept of government when we joined the United Nations.... Let us get out before we are dragged under.'"

Former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson in his 1962 book, The Red Carpet

"[T]he time has come to recognize the United Nations for the anti-American, anti-freedom organization that it has become. The time has come for us to cut off all financial help, withdraw as a member, and ask the United Nations to find a headquarters location outside the United States that is more in keeping with the philosophy of the majority of voting members, someplace like Moscow or Peking."

Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, Congressional Record, October 26, 1971

"The President is the Commander in Chief.... Congress has the war powers. If you second these forces to the UN, how do you maintain the Constitution?"

Wisconsin Congressman Les Aspin, from testimony before the U.S. Senate during confirmation hearings after he had been nominated for the post of Secretary of Defense, January 7, 1993

"Do not be fooled: it is impossible to be against the United Nations and to support 'reform' of the United Nations. The only true reform of the United Nations is for the U.S. to withdraw immediately."

Congressman Ron Paul, in his June 13, 2005 Texas Straight Talk weekly column