You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty…

The compulsory transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even…

— David

The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them…

— Alexander Hamilton

There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics…

— Jean Monnet

You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.

— Stephen Harper

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights…

— Richard Perle

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such…

— Strobe Talbott

The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and…

— Pranab Mukherjee

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

There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets.…

— Jean Monnet

It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity…

— David Rockefeller

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of…

— Stephen Harper

In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power.…

— Amory Lovins

It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that.

— Norman Davies

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