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“Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.”

States Age Behinds Sovereign Militarism Protectionism

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.”

States Differences Degrees Concepts Inherent Sovereign Militarism

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.”

“I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.”

States Use Nations United United States Equal Unions Unity Sovereign

Author:John C. Calhoun

“The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.”

Made States Government Perfect Stones Bases Independent Equality Corners Made It Sovereign

Book:Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

Source: Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

“In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.”

Source: Democracy in America: Book One

“The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.”

World Years Firsts States Political Three Economy Becoming Hundred Concepts First Time Sovereign Sovereignty Divorced Political Systems

Author:Peter Drucker

“For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.”

Wells Looks States Light Law Social Views Modern Ought Empty Command Sovereign Sovereignty Social Change Rapids Precedent Looking To The Future

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.”

Needs States Nations Land Security Citizens Demand Authority Israel Capability Sovereign National Security Historic Transfers Gaza

Author:Menachem Begin

“Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. The gratitude of the nation to the sovereign arbiter of all human events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.”

Source: Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce

“Each state enjoys sovereign power.”

States Enjoy Sovereign Sovereignty

Author:Gouverneur Morris

“The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.”

States Body Constitution Sovereign Sovereignty Thirteen

Author:Oliver Ellsworth

“With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.”

War Sometimes States Reason Law Desire Judging Conflict Ambition Bounds Sovereign Grievance

Book:Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

“While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and external enemies is, in fact, not a fully independent and sovereign state.”

Stills States Facts Enemy Protect Independent Defense Internals Sovereign Sovereignty Aggressors

Author:Kim Il-sung