Within the state we have made defense of the individual the obligation of the whole community, and by that fact have established such preponderance of power on the side of the law that it could never be good business to challenge it. And that fact has, in large measure, swept highwaymen from the roads and pirates from the seas.

We use power, of course, in the international fields in a way which is the exact contrary to the way in which we use it within the state. In the international …

So long as an individual, whether person or state, has only his own arms to depend upon in order to defend his rights by arms, then he must be stronger than an…

One great state says to others, as each in effect has been saying during the ten years of armament debate: 'It is true that we ask for considerable power. Perh…

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well…

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

'The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what s…