"... The time must come when the imperative necessity for the holding of a vast, an all-embracing assemblage of men will be universally realized. "

"The Great Being, wishing to reveal the prerequisites of the peace and tranquillity of the world and the advancement of its peoples, hath written: The time must come when the imperative necessity for the holding of a vast, an all-embracing assemblage of men will be universally realized. The rulers and kings of the earth must needs attend it, and, participating in its deliberations, must consider such ways and means as will lay the foundations of the world’s Great Peace amongst men. Such a peace demandeth that the Great Powers should resolve, for the sake of the tranquillity of the peoples of the earth, to be fully reconciled among themselves."

-Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, CXVII, p. 249