Common good Quote by Pope John Paul II

“In addition to all that, a man may have any opinions he likes without that being any of the sovereign’s business. Having no standing…

— Rousseau Jean-Jacques

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

— Vine Deloria Jr

“There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about…

— Lew Wallace

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but…

— Aristotle

“From a political point of view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself…

— Victor Hugo

“Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and…

— Benjamin Harrison

“Finally, when the State close to ruin subsists only on an illusory and vain form, when the social bond is broken in all hearts,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting…

— William Graham Sumner

“Realism maintains that universal moral principles cannot be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation, but that they must be…

— Hans J. Morgenthau

With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates…

— Kenneth Waltz

Law is the sovereign of sovereigns

— Louis Xiv