#sovereign state

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#behind #earlier #fortified #militarism #protectionism

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#become #civilization #danger #destruction #developments

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#degree #differences #free #inherent #merely

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#civilians #concrete #harm #identify #independent

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it. ↗

— Henry A. Wise

#authority #civil #civil liberty #conflict #defend

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#battle #concept #decisive #engage #internationalism

Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens - are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#against #aggressive #any #citizens #ensure

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#belong #brutal #centuries #crossed #experienced

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#economic #forward #hand #internationalism #isolationism

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#best way #independent #learning #sovereign #sovereign state