Government Quote by John Mearsheimer

The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.

— John Mearsheimer

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly…

— Robert Higgs

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

— Michelle Bachelet

Great-power politics is tragic because the structure of the international system forces states that seek only to be secure nonetheless to act aggressively toward…

— John Mearsheimer

Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the…

— Michael Hayden

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst…

— George Washington

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

— John Bruton

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if…

— Albert Einstein

The United States compared to a number of our competitors is the only government in the world with any kind of safeguards, any kind…

— Hillary Clinton

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

— Ayn Rand