#sovereign

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#become #civilization #danger #destruction #developments

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. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#degree #differences #free #inherent #merely

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. ↗

— David Mallet

#forms #great #inspires #noble #people

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#civilians #concrete #harm #identify #independent

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#goodness #his #love #man #over

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#believes #defend #die #force #independence

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. ↗

— James Monroe

#corrupt #degenerate #exercising #ignorant #incapable

It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God. ↗

— Roy Moore

#god #people #proper #recognize #sovereign

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows. ↗

— Roy Moore

#basis #centralized #constitution #federalist #flows

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#economically #interdependent #longer #national #national sovereignty