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title: "4 Philip Bobbitt Quotes - Famous Professor"
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# Philip Bobbitt

(1948)   Professor

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Philip Bobbitt is a professor.

## Quick Facts About Philip Bobbitt

Born July 22, 1948

Profession Professor

## About Philip Bobbitt

American essayist and political scientist (1948-)... \| Sir Philip Chase Bobbitt is an American legal scholar and political theorist. He is best known for work on U.S. constitutional law and theory, and on the relationship between law, strategy and history in creating and sustaining the State. He is currently the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurispruden

##  Quotes by Philip Bobbitt

> [All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-bobbitt/all-life-is-an-experiment-every-important-decision-is-taken-with/)

Philip Bobbitt

[Decision](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/decision/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e00/philip-bobbitt-68800_decision_all-life-is-an-experiment-every-importan_415624.jpg)

> [War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-bobbitt/war-is-not-a-pathology-that-with-proper-hygiene-and-treatment-can-be/)

Philip Bobbitt

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a09/philip-bobbitt-68800_avoided_war-is-not-a-pathology-that-with-proper_748867.jpg)

> [A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-bobbitt/a-state-that-privatizes-most-of-its-functions-will-inevitably-defend/)

Philip Bobbitt

[Authority](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/authority/)

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> [Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-bobbitt/wars-are-like-deaths-which-while-they-can-be-postponed-will-come-when/)

Philip Bobbitt

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