Ending Quote by John Mearsheimer

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

— Noam Chomsky

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

— Christian Lous Lange

States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.

— Richard N. Haass

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

— Ulrich Beck

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

— Andrew Jackson

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

— Henry Giroux

War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections

— Joseph Sobran

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an…

— Arthur Henderson

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

— Ralph Nader

Great powers react harshly when distant rivals project military power into their neighborhood, much less attempt to make a country on their border an…

— John Mearsheimer

A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is…

— Antoine-Henri Jomini

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the…

— Murray Rothbard