The bogey of "entangling alliances" lurks in the corner of almost every treaty the Senate has had to consider in recent years.
They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.
In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
The pact we have with Japan is interesting. Because if somebody attacks us, Japan does not have to help. If somebody attacks Japan, we have to help Japan.
it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.
There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.
Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong
