Quotes about Independent States

Alexander Hamilton

To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.

Robert Toombs

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

Franjo Tudjman

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.

Kentucky

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:

Commonly referred to as the Kentucky Resolution. This concept of Nullification was one of the factors that aggravated the tensions leading to the Civil War. Were the individual States to be the arbiters of whether or not a Federal act was Constitutional or was it to be the Supreme Court.

Nathanael Greene

Many people secretly wish that every state be completely independent and that as soon as our public debts are liquidated that Congress shall be no more.

Greene had a deep distrust of Congress from his wartime experiences regarding support of the troops. See {621971}.

Henry Knox

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

Court of International Justice

International law governs relations between independent states. The rules of law binding upon states therefore emanate from their own free will.

Individual countries are bound only by the treaties and compacts that they have signed and ratified. So very often someone will allege that a country has violated international law, but that nation may not have signed the Treaty or Compact that binds them, so thy may not be in violation at all whereas some other country in similar circumstances would be. Also, many countries (including the United States) sign treaties but take exception to some of the provisions. Then there are not bound by that provision. This is what makes International Law so complicated and difficult to understand.

Pavel Durov

I think we should be less dependent on the outdated concept we call countries.

John Roberts

The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.

James K. Polk

The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

David Hume

Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy.

John Desmond Bernal

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

Milton Friedman

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

Independent States Quotes