It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty…

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

Paul Martin talks eloquently about defending national sovereignty but the reality hasn't matched the rhetoric. When it comes to the United States, Mr. Martin…

— Stephen Harper

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 is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

— Dick Thornburgh