Today we consider the world of history’s great thinkers on sovereignty and the components of sovereignty, namely: territory, population, authority, and recognition. The Big List Of Quotes On Sovereignty is organized by…
Author: Brian Colwell
What’s The Difference Between Sovereignty, Self-Sovereignty, Liberty, and Autonomy?
“Sovereignty” is a word the definition of which is often confused with “self-sovereignty”, “liberty”, and “autonomy”. While sovereignty, self-sovereignty, liberty, and autonomy are all related to freedom, each speaks to freedom in…
The Big List Of Quotes On Citizen Rights
Gathering from greats such as Aristotle, Montesquieu, Friedrich A. Hayek, and others, we come to a list of quotes on the topic of citizen rights that should serve as a guide to…
The Big List Of Quotes On Constitutional Law
“The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals. It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people,…
The Big List Of Quotes On Justice
Gathering from greats such as Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Émile Durkheim, and others, we come to a list of quotes on the topic of justice that should serve as a guide to any…
The Big List Of Quotes From The Federalist Papers
‘The Federalist Papers’ were originally written by Jay, Madison, and Hamilton as a series of 85 essays, and published under the collective pseudonym “Publius”, in New York newspapers, between October 27, 1787…
The Big List Of Frederic Bastiat Quotes
“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” – Frédéric Bastiat Frédéric Bastiat, the 19th-century French economist and philosopher, possessed a rare gift:…
The Big List Of Montesquieu Quotes
“The society is the union of men and not the men themselves; the citizen may perish and the man remain.” – Montesquieu Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, stands among the titans…
The Big List Of John Rawls Quotes
“There is no antinomy between freedom and reason.” – John Rawls In the landscape of 20th-century political philosophy, few thinkers have shaped our understanding of justice as profoundly as John Rawls. His seminal…
The Big List Of Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes
Today we share the political philosophy of Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-1987) from his work ‘Sovereignty: An Inquiry Into The Political Good’, which was originally published in 1957. Bertrand de Jouvenel was one…