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“There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.”

Men States Form Evil Religious Sin Attitude Perfection Absolutes Bounds Absence Kingdoms Anarchy Sovereignty Kingdom Of God Anarchism Absolute Truth Absolutism Religious Truth

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“The compulsory transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when we stood on our own during the days of the first and second Temples. . . We are given an opportunity which we never dared to dream of in our wildest imaginings. This is MORE than a state, government and sovereignty----this is national consolidation in a free homeland.”

Giving Firsts States Dream Government Opportunity Given Temples Valleys Palestinian Sovereignty Homeland Transfers State Government Compulsory Consolidation

Author:David

“Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites”

States Holy East Rejection Rejects Palestinian Site Sovereignty Israeli Jordan Jerusalem

Author:Yasser Arafat

“The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.”

States Independence Unions Enjoyed Attributes Sovereignty

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“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

“The States acceded to the Union.”

States Independence Unions Sovereignty

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.”

Ifs States Unions Separation Sovereignty Hesitation Continuance Secession

Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?”

Ifs States Absolutes Sovereignty

Author:Mary Astell

“The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even for the benefit of the public officials governing the States. To the contrary, the Constitution divides authority between federal and state governments for the protection of individuals.”

“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

“I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, We, the People? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the People, instead of We, the States? States are the characteristics, and the soul of the confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one of great consolidated National Government of the people of all the States.”

“I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.”

“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

“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

“There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection... The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.”