Colour Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

— Andrew Jackson

The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms;…

— Thomas Jefferson

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands…

— Sam Houston

Duty of a citizen to the defective state is betraying it. Because the defective state has already betrayed its citizens.

— Ilkin Santak

The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature,…

— Alexander Hamilton

“For these new states this curse bears the germs of a deadly sickness. For the nation-state cannot exist once its principle of equality before…

— Hannah Arendt

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own…

— Plato

Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such…

— Lyman Trumbull

It should be appreciated that this whole effort to hold leaders of states criminally responsible is a rather radical challenge to territorial sovereignty and…

— Richard A. Falk

It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any…

— Roger B. Taney

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