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• Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

  Bertrand Russell

  World Government, Survival, Possibility

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• It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.

  Walter Cronkite

  World Government, Yield, Order

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Scripture, Matter

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• While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and external enemies is, in fact, not a fully independent and sovereign state.

  Kim Il-sung

  Independent, Enemy, Sovereign

  "On Some Problems of Our Party's Juche Idea and the Government of the Republic's Internal and External Policies". Mainichi Shimbun, September 17, 1972.

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• A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

  R. C. Sproul

  Wrath, Idols, Justice

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2015

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• Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or to fulfil some non-existent imperial ambitions.

  Vladimir Putin

  Ambition, Mean, Nuclear

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• In
  the creation of the federal government, the states exercised the
  highest act of sovereignty, and they may, if they please, repeat the
  proof of their sovereignty, by its annihilation. But the union possesses
  no innate sovereignty, like the states; it was not self-constitute d; it
  is conventional, and of course subordinate to the sovereignties by
  which it was formed.

  John Taylor

  Government, Self, Unions

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• That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Judging, Nullification

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• The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to controul one part from invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently controuled itself, from setting up an interest adverse to that of the entire Society.

  James Madison

  Rights, Government, Different

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.353

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• Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

  George Washington

  Tugging, Ruins, Thirteen

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.208

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• Together, America and the United Kingdom are a beacon for prosperity and the rule of law. That is why the United States respects the sovereignty of the British people and their right of self-determination.

  Donald Trump

  Determination, Self, Law

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.

  Maurice Strong

  Powerful, Yield, Community

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• It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result not of theory, but "of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable" . . . the equal vote allowed to each state, is at once a constitutional recognition of the portion of sovereignty remaining in the individual states, and an instrument for preserving that residuary sovereignty.

  James Madison

  Hands, Political, Trying

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• After the unlawful decision to recognize Kosovo, everyone expected Russia to respond by recognizing the independence and sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This is true, this is how it was. Everyone was waiting for Russia's decision. And we had the moral right to make it but we did not. We were more than restrained. I don't even want to comment on it. In truth, we "swallowed" it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Decision, Waiting

  Source: russialist.org

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• The idea of self-determination was gradually given credibility by international law, and it lent strong emancipatory support to movements of liberation struggling against a West-centric world order. Latin American countries used international law creatively, both to limit the protection of foreign investment by establishing the primacy of national sovereignty in relation to natural resources, and by building support for the norm on non-intervention in internal affairs.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Strong, Determination

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not from the King of England, not from the judiciary, not from government at all, but from God. The keystone of our system of popular sovereignty is the recognition, as the Declaration acknowledges, that 'all men are created equal' and 'endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.' Religion and God are no alien to our system of government, they're integral to it.

  Mark Levin

  Kings, Men, Rights

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• Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Government, Political

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• The States acceded to the Union.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Independence, Unions, States

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• If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Unions, Separation, States

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.284

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• [We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving Up, Rights, Government

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• Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Long, People, Body

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• Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Insecure, Land, Tyrants

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• God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Hands, His Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.90

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• We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

  John Boyd Orr

  World, Absolutes, Nations

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• The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Meaningful, Military, Believe

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