Foreign relations Quote by Thomas Hobbes

A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in…

— Vaclav Havel

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

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

— Seneca the Younger

Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law — not the rule of force — governs relations between states.…

— Wesley Clark

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the…

— Georg Buchner

“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

The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for…

— Walter E. Williams

It is equally clear that a government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover,…

— Calvin Coolidge

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

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar…

— Roger B. Taney

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the…

— Mary McCarthy