Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than caretakers of a bankrupt international machine which will have to be transformed slowly into a new one. The transition will not be dramatic, but a gradual one. People will still cling to national symbols.” ~ Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1891-1967) U.S. Secretary of the Treasury for Franklin D. Roosevelt, CFR memberSource: 1945