The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to…

The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“International law now covers vast and complex areas of transnational concern, including traditional topics, such as the position of states,59 state succession,60 state responsibility,61…

— Anonymous

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles…

— Ludwig Quidde

“the role of international law in international relations has always been limited, but it is rarely insignificant.47 Its function in structuring”

— Anonymous

“International law now covers vast and complex areas of transnational concern, including traditional topics, such as the position of states,59 state succession,60 state responsibility,61…

— Anonymous

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

— George Soros

The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words.…

— Andrew Johnson

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by,…

— Dick Thornburgh

But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient…

— Malcolm X

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

— J. William Fulbright

US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's rights. International…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just…

— Theodor Herzl

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as…

— Walter Cronkite

Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward…

— Chester Middlebrook Pierce

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

— Arthur Henderson