National Sovereignty Quotes
26 National Sovereignty quotes by 23 unique authors
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The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and…
— Maurice Strong
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In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In…
— Amory Lovins
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If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as…
— Dick Thornburgh
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So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented;…
— Joseph Story
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The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a…
— Strobe Talbott
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The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union--complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within…
— Ron Paul
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There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets. Their…
— Jean Monnet
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This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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 says…
— Stephen Harper
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The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events…
— Nelson Rockefeller
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
— Ulrich Beck
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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
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In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in…
— Vicente Fox
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You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.
— Gijs de Vries
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There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.
— Edward Heath
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Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while…
— Max Lerner
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National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of…
— Richard Perle
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Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty…
— Bob Barr
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You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.
— Stephen Harper
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The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American…
— Stephen Harper
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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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
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All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure…
— Frederick Buechner
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Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is…
— Vladimir Putin
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