We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal…

I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a…

— John C. Calhoun

If your great-great-grandfather participated on the Confederate side, and you hold some sentimental value to that, and you want to fly the flag and…

— Killer Mike

With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates…

— Kenneth Waltz

No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states. It…

— Kwame Nkrumah

In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with…

— Albert Einstein

Either we are a sovereign state, or we are not! As long as we are not, we have no business in a community of…

— Adolf Hitler

“In the Victorian era a curious belief was prevalent that sovereign states ought to have governments that were reasonably efficient and solvent.”

— Byron Farwell

This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which represent legitimate…

— Vaclav Klaus

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable…

— Michael Howard

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

— Roger Sherman

“It’s a little-known fact that most terrorist groups fail, and that all of them die. Lest this seem hard to believe, just reflect on…

— Steven Pinker

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting…

— John C. Calhoun

The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and…

— John Stuart Mill

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for…

— Robert Toombs

Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against slavery, people…

— Chuck Klosterman